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Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition

Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition

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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
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Exodus: Shemot
What if, through this crack in the text, older gods return?
Dan Sinykin
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Exodus: Vaera
For Freud, “chosenness” was a psychopathological fantasy in need of explanation.
Len Gutkin
ten plagues
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Exodus: Bo
How do you read a plague?
Briallen Hopper
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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
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Exodus: Yitro
What does it mean that we do not consent to our ethical obligations?
Jacob Plitman
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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
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Exodus: Terumah
Does the Tabernacle represent God’s effort to institutionalize the energy of a riot?
Carina del Valle Schorske
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Exodus: Tetzaveh
What are sacred objects for?
Pratima Gopalakrishnan
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Exodus: Ki Tissa
For Jews, divine forgiveness is a hard bargain.
Isaac Brosilow
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Exodus: Vayakhel
After a political rupture, rituals of repetition can attempt to restore normalcy—or throw it into question.
Raphael Magarik
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Exodus: Pekudai
Can people in pursuit of freedom trust each other?
Ari M. Brostoff

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