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...word. Berg has written the bulk of the works that make up the center's core curriculum. That is a disturbing monopoly to critics who dispute Berg's theology. Berg traces the center's roots to two Israeli rabbis, the late Yehudah Ashlag and Brandwein. But Brandwein's son Avraham denies any connection between the center and Brandwein's legacy, and some scholars characterize Berg's teachings as New Age perversions, a sort of Kabbalah Lite cooked up for Americans...
...duty to reclaim all the land of biblical Israel, she believed, and she came, not just to the Holy Land but to the very heart of the struggle, to the West Bank city of Hebron. After a year in the confines of the Avraham Avinu quarter, one of six minuscule fortified enclaves inhabited by some 400 Jews amid the city's 100,000 Palestinians, she has no doubts and no regrets. It's simple, she says, as she nuzzles her two-year-old son, "If I want to live anywhere in Israel, there is no reason...
Albright's intellectual heirs, including Israeli archaeologists Avraham Biran and the late Yigael Yadin, made similar assumptions. Said Yadin a few years before his death in 1984: "The Old Testament for me is a guide. It is the authentic history of my people." The Bible says, for example, that King Solomon fortified the cities of Hazor, Gezer and Megiddo during his reign. Sure enough, Yadin went out in the late 1950s and found a city gate at the ruins of Hazor, and dated it to Solomon's time, in the 10th century B.C. When he found that early explorers...
...Avraham Biran of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and Joseph Naveh of the Hebrew University announced they had found an inscription bearing the phrases "House of David" and "King of Israel." The writing - dated to the 9th century B.C., only a century after David's reign - described a victory by a neighboring King over the Israelites. Some minimalists tried to argue that the inscription might have been misread, but most experts believe Biran and Naveh got it right. The skeptics' claim that King David never existed is now hard to defend...
...speed his coming by creating an atmosphere for Redemption. Other scholars reject Habad's active campaigning for the event. Followers of Rabbi Schach, a longtime rival of Schneerson's, believe the arrival of the Messiah is God's business, not man's. "When he comes, he comes," says Avraham Ravitz, a member of the Knesset. "It's crazy to force the Messiah to come by selling him like Coca-Cola, with jingles and stickers and billboards...