Eastern Worldview Archives - Our Rabbi Jesus https://ourrabbijesus.com/tag/eastern-worldview/ His Jewish Life and Teaching Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:01:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 31550207 In the West, Man is Big and God is Far Away https://ourrabbijesus.com/in-the-west-man-is-big-and-god-is-far-away/ https://ourrabbijesus.com/in-the-west-man-is-big-and-god-is-far-away/#respond Mon, 08 Sep 2014 03:03:16 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?p=4515 I’m always fascinated by the question of what we need to know, culturally, to understand our Bibles better. So I enjoyed the essay at this link by James Kugel, a Jewish biblical scholar, about a fundamental disconnect between the worldview of the Bible and of our Western world today. It’s from an essay on Psalm […]

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