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Book: The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE
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  1. Simon Schama _ The Story of the Jews: Finding

    God is the finger; God is writing; God, is above all else, words.
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  2. Simon Schama _ The Story of the Jews: Finding

    Jesus was constitutively, not incidentally--a Jew; the Old and the New Testament were organically connected. Jewish history was the father of Christian history.
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  3. Simon Schama _ The Story of the Jews: Finding

    A central fact, possibly central fact, about the Hebrew Bible is that it is not written at a moment of apogee, but over three centuries {eight to fifth} of trouble, That is what gives the Book its cumulative sobriety, its cautionary poetic, severity from the coarseness of triumphal self-congratulation found in imperial cultures.
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  4. Simon Schama _ The Story of the Jews: Finding

    Since there was little or nothing in Jesus' own reported teachings which required the repudiation of the Torah, it was possible to be a Jewish Christian, and considerable numbers in the first generations after his death were just that, both inside Palestine and beyond.
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  5. Simon Schama _ The Story of the Jews: Finding

    No, no, no, choose , More Marimondes thought. It wasn't that he disrespected the sacrifice of the martyr, but the simplicity of absolute ideals, across all religions, he found alien and disrespectful of the injunction to save life clearly enjoined in the Torah.
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  6. Simon Schama _ The Story of the Jews: Finding

    „Rozbójnicy" i „bandyci" to terminy od dawna stosowane przez bogatych {do których z pewnością zaliczał się Józef {Flawiusz}} na określenie buntowników spośród obciążonych podatkami i zubożałych.
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