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Benjamin D. Sommer

Benjamin D. Sommer is professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His book Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition (Yale University Press) received the Goldstein-Goren Prize in Jewish Thought.

Exodus and Consciousness

Spring 2018

Exodus and Consciousness

By: Benjamin D. Sommer

Who left Egypt ? And how did the Israelites experience God? Richard Friedman is a biblical detective, James Kugel is more of a literary anthropologist.

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