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...Steinberg??s students praised his excellent work as both a teacher and a mentor...
Kennedy School Lecturer Marshall L. Ganz ’67, one of Steinberg??s colleagues, echoed Solomon-Schwartz’s sentiments, noting that “it is this deep humanity, caring, and wisdom that informs all Bernie does. He thus illuminates not only with his inspiration, not only with his ideas, but, most of all, with his deeds. Is this not what excellence in Jewish education is all about...
...with its ancient source material. On the one hand, the text of the story is rife with biblical allusions. Some are direct citations made by characters, some inform the book’s conversations in paraphrase, and still others are simply biblical phrases woven directly into the fabric of Steinberg??s narrative. The somewhat stilted wording of the Bible in English translation assimilates easily into Steinberg??s high register prose style, and in this manner, the milieu of the story pervades the storytelling...
...does not speak in this retelling of the Bible. Hosea’s words and actions stem from his own personal inclinations. In the Bible, God orders him to marry Gomer; in Steinberg??s book, the marriage comes about naturally. Likewise, Steinberg??s Hosea preaches from experience, not divine ecstasy. This is the story as a modern writer—uncomfortable with the idea of a too personal God and drawn to a materialistic understanding of human affairs—would tell it. Thus, even as Steinberg draws upon the Bible for his inspiration, he distances...
...singularity of Steinberg??s mode of writing helps explain the curious sight of many Jewish public and literary luminaries—Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick and Harold Kushner among them—all suddenly seizing the coattails of this rather obscure rabbi now six decades deceased, and adorning “The Prophet’s Wife” with glowing blurbs, introductions and even back-of-the-book commentaries. If there is a lesson beyond the theological to be derived from “The Prophet’s Wife,” it is that this...