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July 15, 2016

God’s Love for His People, His People’s Love of God

One of the Bible’s most important and most overlooked ideas.

In his recent book, The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism, Jon D. Levenson explores one of the Hebrew Bible’s most fundamental—and most frequently overlooked—concepts, tracing its development through ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish thought. Here he discusses his book, the condition of contemporary Judaism, and the tendency of Bible scholars to shun the text’s ideas. (Interview by Matthew Lynch. Audio, 50 minutes.)

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