EPISODE · Oct 11, 2023 · 13 MIN
R. David Kasher on Parashat Bereishit: The Grammar of God
from Ta Shma · host Hadar Institute
The Torah signals to us from the start that words have great power. A book that opens with an account of a world created through divine speech acts reveals its own interest in the creative possibilities of language. So we can expect this text to choose its words carefully, deliberately. We might not, however, have expected the extent to which the Torah is willing to manipulate the other features and forms of language in order to communicate ideas.
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The Torah signals to us from the start that words have great power. A book that opens with an account of a world created through divine speech acts reveals its own interest in the creative possibilities of language. So we can expect this text to choose its words carefully, deliberately. We might not, however, have expected the extent to which the Torah is willing to manipulate the other features and forms of language in order to communicate ideas.
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