Jews and Christians with any sort of religious upbringing first encounter Scripture and its stories as children, and often continue to understand them from a child’s perspective even as they grow older. Yet the Hebrew Bible comprises undeniably adult tales of life in all its vicissitudes. Drawing on her experience teaching the Tanakh to young American Jewish women at an Israeli religious seminary, Avital Hazony Levi explains how readers can come to see the sacred text from a mature perspective, using the tale of Abraham and Sarah as an example. (Interview by Dru Johnson. (Interview by Dru Johnson. Audio, 47 minutes.)
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