Class 4. 1/28 Revelation and redemption


Moses, Street Art by Kosher 74 Links to an external site.

Tanakh: Exodus 3–20.

Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man, Download ch. 19, “The Mystery of Revelation,” ch. 20, “The Paradox of Sinai,”

184­–199.

How does the revelation at Sinai structure Jewish narratives? How does Heschel describe the revelation at Sinai?

In-class materials: Download Reluctant covenant midrashim

, adapted from Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews (1909), vol. III.