The Giant and the Ants

Jul 24, 2015 By Raysh Weiss | Commentary | Devarim

As literary critic Erich Auerbach highlights in 淥dysseus� Scar,� the opening chapter of his monumental work of literary criticism, Mimesis, the Bible favors a comparatively terse literary style, presenting even heightened emotional episodes in verb-heavy narrative, largely bereft of extensive dialogue or literary embellishments. Accordingly, those rare instances in which the Torah elaborates in its description of people, places, or events should command our attention as both unusual and worthy of further consideration.

Devarim

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The prophecies of Isaiah son of Amoz, who prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Devarim

Jan 1, 1980

¹ These are the words that Moses addressed to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan. � Through the wilderness, in the Arabah near Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab, ² it is eleven days from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by the Mount Seir route.

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