Last week's recommendation.
Week 3 recommendation.
Week 2 recommendation.
Introduction to the series and first recommendation.
And now for some relief from text: This is a book, but it was originally a TV series, and it's also an audiobook and a website.
Along with the Everett Fox translation of the Bible (next week's Pintele Yid pick), the conversations on Genesis hosted by Bill Moyers are a great resource for people whose spiritual nerve endings have been cauterized by oppressive literalism.
"In all honesty, when I first tuned into Genesis the PBS series, I wasn't really in the mood to hear a cabal of hyper- intellectual critics enlighten me with their interpretations of an already widely familiar religious text. Within seconds of watching, however, I was completely engrossed in a conversation unlike any I'd experienced before--lively, intelligent, generous, illuminating, exciting. ...."Moyers may have grown up Baptist, but he knows how to facilitate a Jewish approach to sacred texts, which is one reason I recommend this multimedia immersion in the first book of our national mythology/history. (Or perhaps he learned how Jews wrestle with text from his collaborator JTS professor Burt Visotzky, from whom I had the pleasure of taking a short class this spring.)
(If you have issues with Bill Moyers because of his recent statements about the war in Iraq, save it.)
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