The Land that is Never Called Holy: The Land of Israel in Biblical Thought

Engaging Israel: Jewish Values and the Dilemmas of Nationhood

Program Theme: Engaging Israel: Jewish Values and the Dilemmas of Nationhood

Lecture Title

Lecturer: Marc Brettler

Lecture Sources

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I. the Nature of the Land

Sources from Sefer Ha-Aggadah

  1. Sefer Ha-Aggadah, pg. 359

Beginnings

2. Genesis 11:21; 12:1-4

Land Promise

3. Genesis 15:7,18

4. Genesis 48:4

5. Deuteronomy 6:10

Conditionality

6. Genesis 13:15

7. Genesis 17:7-11

Nature of the Land

8. Leviticus 26:33-45

9. Exodus 3:8

10. Deuteronomy 6:18

11. Deuteronomy 8:7

12. Deuteronomy 11:10-11

13. Numbers 16:13

Holy

14. Deuteronomy 8:19-20

15. Leviticus 18:24-30

16. Numbers 35:30-34

17. Amos 7:17

18. Exodus 25:8

19. Ezekiel 48:10-14

20. 1 Samuel 26:19

21. Joshua 22:9-19

22. Deuteronomy 12:5

Psalms

23. Psalms 2:6

24. Psalms 50:2

25. Psalms 87:2

26. Psalms 132:13

27. Psalms 48: 1-13

II. The Loss of the Land: Some Perspectives

24. Lamentations 1; 2; 5

25. 2 Kings 21: 10-16; 24:18-20; 25: 1-12

26.2 Chronicles 36: 11-14

27. Jeremiah 22: 1-5; 32: 30-35; 17: 19-27

28. Ezekiel 8:15-18; 9: 1-10; 10: 18-19; 3:12; 11: 14-16

III. Israel and Diaspora

29. Leviticus 26: 22-45

30. Deuteronomy 28:58-69

31. Deuteronomy 30:1-10

32. 1 Kings 8:46-35

33. Daniel 6:11

34. Jeremiah 29: 1-14

35. Psalms 137: 1-9

36. Psalms 138: 1-8

37. Daniel 3: 1-33

38. Sources from Sefer Ha-Aggadah

Program: Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar

Program Year: 2010

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