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Francoise Mirguet

Francoise Mirguet is an associate professor of Hebrew at Arizona State University. Her first book was La représentation du divin dans les récits du Pentateuque (Brill). She is currently a Harry Starr fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies. Her new book, An Early History of Compassion, will be published later this year by Cambridge University Press.

“Repent, Repent”

“Repent, Repent”

Francoise Mirguet

In his new book, How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture, David A. Lambert argues that repentance, as we understand it today, is absent from the Hebrew Bible.