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My View

An agenda for the 21st century

By Joseph Blenkinsopp

Old Testament scholars do not generally lead colorful lives. It will suffice to say that since the late fifties I have been attached to seven different institutions in three countries. Having taught Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and related areas for over three decades, I welcome this opportunity to take a brief backward and forward look before hurrying off. When asked how I got interested biblical studies, it would be pleasant to answer, as some previous contributors to this column have done, that it all started in my earliest days at home or in school. This, however, was not the case […]

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Footnotes

1.

See, for example, the reference to the scriptures “beginning with Moses and all the prophets” in the beautiful story of the Walk to Emmaus told by Luke (Luke 24:13–49).

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Together with Chaim Potok as literary editor, I am producing a new series of commentaries on the Torah, Genesis and Exodus written by myself, with Baruch Levine, Jacob Milgrom, and Jeffrey Tigay, respectively, commenting on the other three books.