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Exodus: Pekudai

Can people in pursuit of freedom trust each other?

Ari M. Brostoff June 9, 2022

Exodus: Vayakhel

After a political rupture, rituals of repetition can attempt to restore normalcy—or throw it into question.

Raphael Magarik March 12, 2021

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Exodus: Ki Tissa

For Jews, divine forgiveness is a hard bargain.

Isaac Brosilow September 25, 2020

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Exodus: Tetzaveh

What are sacred objects for?

Pratima Gopalakrishnan August 4, 2020

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Exodus: Terumah

Does the Tabernacle represent God’s effort to institutionalize the energy of a riot?

Carina del Valle Schorske July 16, 2020

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Exodus: Mishpatim

Terrible violence will unfold while the Israelites are kept busy with lines and lines of civic code.

Sarah Chihaya June 12, 2020

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Exodus: Yitro

What does it mean that we do not consent to our ethical obligations?

Jacob Plitman June 4, 2020

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Exodus: Beshalach

For the enslaved, the formerly enslaved, and the otherwise surveilled, wandering is not simply unproductive movement; it is self-possessed, erratic, wayward action.

Omari Weekes May 20, 2020

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Exodus: Bo

How do you read a plague?

Briallen Hopper May 13, 2020

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Exodus: Vaera

For Freud, “chosenness” was a psychopathological fantasy in need of explanation.

Len Gutkin April 30, 2020

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Exodus: Shemot

What if, through this crack in the text, older gods return?

Dan Sinykin April 22, 2020

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Exodus: An Introduction

The Bible is long and the length of our self-isolation uncertain, so we decided to read the Book of Exodus.

Ari M. Brostoff, Sarah Chihaya, and Dan Sinykin April 15, 2020