Events and Reviews
Llyd Wells’ “Clima(c)tic Change: Twenty Million Hands and the Living, Wavering Globe”
Last August, I heard an NPR discussion of climate change in relation to the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill designating almost $800 billion to energy security and climate change. The show’s host emphasized that, per the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
Phil Lecuyer’s “The Concept of Truth in the Book of Genesis”
The Hebrew word אמת (emes), translated as ‘truth,’ occurs in the Torah for the first time in the 24th chapter of Genesis in verse 27. It occurs soon after in the same passage as an adjective in verse 48, and again as a noun in 24: 49. What is the structure of the...
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