Preaching Biblical Texts: Expositions by Jewish and Christian Scholars

Jacket Description/Back: This excellent collection of expositions of texts from the Torah/Pentateuch by eminent Jewish and Christian scholars clearly demonstrates the distinctive approaches taken to the text by representatives of the Jewish and Christian traditions.

Contributor Bio:  Holmgren, Fredrick Carlson Holmgren is Professor of Biblical Literature, North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL. Contributor Bio:  Schaalman, Herman E Schaalman is Rabbi Emeritus at Emanuel Congregation of Chicago and holds the Jewish Chautauqua Society lectureship at Garrett Evangelical Seminary and Chicago Theological Seminary. Contributor Bio:  Wiesel, Elie Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, has been the preeminent voice of conscience and Holocaust memory throughout the seven decades since the end of World War II. In 1984, Professor Wiesel delivered the keynote address at the First International Conference of Children of Holocaust Survivors in New York City, and he has graciously allowed us to publish excerpts from that address as his charge to the post-Holocaust generations as we explore who we are, what we believe and what we stand for in the pages of this book. Contributor Bio:  Tracy, David David Tracy is Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, professor of theology in the Divinity School, and professor in the Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and Methods and the Committee on Social Thought. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of many books, including "Blessed Rage for Order" and "The Analogical Imagination," Contributor Bio:  Bernardin, Joseph Cardinal Joseph Louis Bernardin served as Archbishop of Cincinnati and President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D. C. He became a cardinal in 1983 and was Archbishop of Chicago from 1982 until his death in 1996. Widely recognized as both a church and civic leader, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom shortly before he died. Alphonse P. Spilly, C. PP. S., served as special assistant to Cardinal Bernardin from 1984 to 1996. He assisted "with "The Gift of Peace and edited the two-volume Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin. He is director of the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Center for Theology and Ministry at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Jeremy Langford edited The Gift of Peace and two biographical photobooks of the Cardinal by John H. White, This Man Bernardin and The Final Journey of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin. He is editor-in-chief of Sheed & Ward Book Publishing and is earning a master's degree as a Bernardin Scholar at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.