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Shabbat Shalom! It’s Torah Study time! Woo hoo!
If you’re following this thread, sit back and relax because I haven’t done one of these in a while and intend to dig 😊
The Bible portion this week is called “Miketz,” which literally means “from the end of.”
Genesis 41:1-44:17
Supplemental: I Kings 3:15 - 4:1
https://t.co/RF4A7OU6aa
Why would a Bible portion be named “from the end of?”
Because really what it means is “from the end, beginning”
or “the beginning of the end”
Or “the light at the end of the tunnel” (think about the tunnels and how literal that
If you’re following this thread, sit back and relax because I haven’t done one of these in a while and intend to dig 😊
The Bible portion this week is called “Miketz,” which literally means “from the end of.”
Genesis 41:1-44:17
Supplemental: I Kings 3:15 - 4:1
https://t.co/RF4A7OU6aa
Why would a Bible portion be named “from the end of?”
Because really what it means is “from the end, beginning”
or “the beginning of the end”
Or “the light at the end of the tunnel” (think about the tunnels and how literal that
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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x