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⬇PDF Navot's Vineyard (Part 9)

Article Source: Courtesy of the Virtual Beit Midrash, Yeshivat Har Etzion Rabbi Elchanan Samet מלכים א כ"א:א' - כ"ב:א'

Various thematic and literary parallels and contrasts are drawn between the two halves of the story before and after the central axis of the story highlighting Izevel’s influence on Ahav and the movem…

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⬇PDF Navot's Vineyard (Part 8)

Article Source: Courtesy of the Virtual Beit Midrash, Yeshivat Har Etzion Rabbi Elchanan Samet מלכים א כ"א:א' - כ"ב:א'

The two halves of the story reflect two inverse processes that Ahav undergoes: his deterioration from transgressing a “light” prohibition to complicity in the most terrible of sins – murder, and his a…

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⬇PDF Eliyahu in Horev (Part 1)

Article Source: Courtesy of the Virtual Beit Midrash, Yeshivat Har Etzion Rabbi Elchanan Samet מלכים א י"ט:א'-כ"א

The chiastic structure in chapter 19 utilizes parallels in language, themes, characters and geography in order to highlight Eliyahu’s revelation at Mount Horev as the central axis of this narrative.

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