Daily Archives: February 14, 2011

Friedman, J, and E

I’m reading Richard Elliott Friedman’s Who Wrote the Bible? for the third time.  In this post, I want to talk about his characterizations of J and E. How can one tell J and E apart?  You can’t necessarily by grouping … Continue reading

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“The Struggle for an Education”

In Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery, I read Chapter 3, “The Struggle for an Education.” It’s about the long, hard journey that Booker T. Washington made before he finally attended the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia.  Booker … Continue reading

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