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The Harvard Divinity School's recent appointment of a Hebrew Bible scholar marks the first time a professor at the predominantly Christian-focused institution will assume a full-time teaching position that revolves around the Jewish culture and religion.
"He is rethinking the role of the Bible, and his work is in conversation with that of Christian scholars while at the same time of interest to scholars of Judaism," Theimann said.
Levenson, who is the author of the recently published book, Creation and the Persistence of Evil: Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence, said next year he hopes to study the concept of chosenness, or God's preference of one person over another in the Bible, and its theological implications.
The not so subtle message: by backing George Herbert Walker Bush, that Bible-believing, God-fearing Episcopalian, "you'll be doing your Christian duty in helping to rebuild our nation and its institutions on the God-given foundation of Biblical truths."
If today's temple of the body is the health spa, its altar is the Nautilus machine and its Bible is Prevention, the 38-year-old monthly health magazine (circ. 2.9 million). Prevention once ran an article on how to guard against skin cancer; each year, it said, readers should...