Conservative Judaism and the faces of God's words / Benjamin Edidin Scolnic.

Includes bibliographical references.

The flexible word of God: thoughts on the other pole of biblical authority -- Modern methods of Biblical interpretation -- Moses and the horns of power -- How could the Israelites have owned slaves? -- Did David kill Goliath? Historical criticism and religious meaning -- Were David and Jonathan homosexual? -- David's final testament: morality or expediency? -- Bilʻam and the undecidability of words -- The validity of feminist biblical interpretation -- When does a feministic perspective about the bible become anti-semitic? A male visits The red tent -- Naʻaseh ve-naqriv: prayer, sacrifice, and the meaning of ritual -- A piyyut of Neʻilah -- Jonah and other lip-synchers -- Traditional methods of Bible study -- Did Abraham wear a yalmulke? -- Crises in perpetuation: am I my grandfather's reincarnation? -- Deuteronomy as the intellectual foundation of Conservative Judaism -- From bloody bridegroom to covenant rite: Brit milah: the perspective of modern biblical scholarship -- Ishmael: biblical criticism and conservative Jewish homiletics -- Footsteps on the ceiling and idols on the floor: integrated study of history and story in the Conservative Jewish day school -- The synagogue as God: Beth El and the theology of institutions -- Between two worlds, or Why the peacock doesn't fly.