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What impairs our sight are habits of seeing.... Our sight is suffused with knowing, instead of feeling painfully the lack of knowing what we see. The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know. – Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets: An Introduction, xi

The Jewish Gospels
by Daniel Boyarin published April 2012
In this book, I’m going to tell a very different historical story, a story of a time...in which the question of the difference between Judaism and Christianity just didn’t exist as it does now (p. 1).
The New Oxford Annotated Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
by Michael D. Coogan published March 2010
A very important part of Second Temple Jewish Literature: a vital witness to the faith of the Jewish People in the period between the 3rd century B.C.E. and the 1st century C.E.
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English: Seventh Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Geza Vermes published June 2012
A newly updated edition of the classic translation by one of the world’s greatest scholars.
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It Did Not Have to Be
April 2012
Jewish Hermeneutics: The Scriptures are for Living!
March 2012
Heschel: Know What You See!
February 2012
Know what we see, RATHER than see what we know!