Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Who said these quotes?

Match the theorist to the statement. Your choices are Elie Wiesel, Mordechai Kaplan, Eliezar Berkowits, Martin Buber, Richard Rubenstein, Emil Falkenheim, Elaine Pagels, or Hannah Arendt

A. "A Jew may not respond to Hitler’s attempt to destroy Jerusalem by himself cooperating in its destruction"

B. "..it is given to man to transform divine injustice into human justice and compassion." C. "What about religion in the time of the death of God? It is the way in which we share and celebrate, both consciously and unconsciously, through the inherited myths, rituals, and traditions of our communities, the dilemmas and crises of life and death, good and evil. Religion is the way in which we share our predicament; it is never the way in which we overcome our condition."

D. "(The Jews’) trust is not the affirmation of a transcendental truth but the living of the life of the covenant here and now. Therefore he does not say, `I believe’ but "I am" because he owes his being to the covenant."

E."So when God promises to make Abraham the father of a new, great, and blessed nation, he simultaneously defines and constitutes its enemies as inferior and potentially accursed."

F."The traditional believer was convinced that in obeying the Torah he was fulfilling God’s
will. We no longer possess that assurance."

You could have Googled those in the time it took you to copy those texts here. Just search on key phrases (using quotes) in Google Books. For instance,

"consciously and unconsciously, through the inherited myths" http://books.google.com/books?client=safari&um=1&q=%22consciously+and+unconsciously%2C+through+the+inherited+myths%22&btnG=Search+Books

A is a misquote, by the way. It’s "Judaism", not "Jerusalem".

One Response to “Who said these quotes?”

RAY G Says:

You could have Googled those in the time it took you to copy those texts here. Just search on key phrases (using quotes) in Google Books. For instance,

"consciously and unconsciously, through the inherited myths" http://books.google.com/books?client=safari&um=1&q=%22consciously+and+unconsciously%2C+through+the+inherited+myths%22&btnG=Search+Books

A is a misquote, by the way. It’s "Judaism", not "Jerusalem".
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