Harris Lenowitz

HARRIS LENOWITZ is associate professor of Hebrew in the Middle East Center at the University of Utah and chairman of its Jewish Studies program. His major field of interest is Jewish literature. The paper was originally presented at a B. H. Roberts Society meeting on biblical exegesis in the spring of 1986.

The Binding of Isaac: A View of Jewish Exegesis

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 2

For Jews, the Bible is an animate being. Understanding it means understanding everything we have experienced. The sum of meaning in the Bible is the sum of life’s meaning. Judaism is over 2,000 years of…