Discussed in D'var Torah from JCCs of North America here
NEW article about the book in J Weekly
NEW book review by John Wofford in New Voices
NEW book review by Robert A. Cohn in the St. Louis Jewish Light
NEW book review by writer and blogger, Mary McCray: http://www.marymccray.com/moses.html
NEW article about the book in J Weekly
NEW book review by John Wofford in New Voices
NEW book review by Robert A. Cohn in the St. Louis Jewish Light
NEW book review by writer and blogger, Mary McCray: http://www.marymccray.com/moses.html
Book Reviews
Register-Guard, Eugene, OR - March 18, 2012
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John Wofford of New Voices - Sept 5, 2012
http://www.newvoices.org/arts_and_culture?id=0202
Mary McCray - June, 2012see: http://www.marymccray.com/moses.html
Rabbi Nina Mandel writes:
In Moses: A Stranger Among Us, Rabbi Maurice Harris challenges us to take a fresh local at a familiar character. This book is full of fine scholarship, inspiring ideas, and well written discussions that lead the reader through the life of Moses with a contemporary focus. Harris taps into an important need in Jewish settings to speak to the broad spectrum of identity that now includes interfaith, multi-racial, pan-ethnic, non-traditional families, and queer Jews. Proving that the opportunity to make Torah relevant is available for every generation, he uses Moses' unique biography to inspire us to engage again and again with our sacred texts. I can't wait to incorporate the teachings from this book into my work.
Jane Renfro Smith writes:
Rabbi Harris . . . I picked [up your book] and have been reading it during snatches of free time. I just finished the midwives chapter and I am so moved by it. . How could I not have noticed and speculated [about the midwives in Exodus]? I am sure many many readers will be saying that about all the lessons that are there in Exodus- courage, openness to change and diversity and most especially the acts of unnamed people who stood their ground, probably with hearts beating wildly at the risk. Anyway thanks for writing the book.
Ms. Smith is the facilitator for Church of the Resurrection's Adult Christian Formation group in Eugene, Oregon.
Ms. Smith is the facilitator for Church of the Resurrection's Adult Christian Formation group in Eugene, Oregon.
The Rev. Natasha Garrison writes:
Moses: A Stranger among Us is an engaging, thought-provoking, and insightful examination into the life of Moses and, by extension, those whose lives were connected to his. While it is a scholarly work, it is written in a very accessible style. The great gift of this book is its ability to demonstrate how faith is a living reality that responds to human experience, needs, and new understandings and situations through examples from the life of Moses. For those of us who are deeply concerned with the narrow-mindedness, fundamentalism, cruelty and hatred towards others that are spawned by rigid, inflexible and dogmatic interpretations of God and God's Scriptures, Rabbi Harris offers intellectually and theologically sound arguments for an open, responsive and living faith that can embrace new ideas, interpretations and visions of God. This is a book to read, to learn from, and share. I look forward to sharing its insights with my Anglican parish!