“At this point it may be helpful to remember the distinction that the narratologist Gérard Genette makes between story and narrative.46 A literary narrative may differ in many ways from the story it tells (regardless of whether the story is… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“The Song [of Solomon] captures the ecstatic aspect of love that is the main subject of the whole Bible.” — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“That the Old Testament represents God chiefly as angry Judge and vicious Warrior is a false stereotype. While these images are not absent, they are more than balanced by striking portrayals of God as Lover or Husband, infatuated with Israel beyond all reason or deserving. God is not too proud to grieve terribly over Israel's unfaithfulness, nor to be giddy… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“...our role as comforters is not to solve the problem of pain; even less is it to stick up for God. Trying to vindicate… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“The very idea of wisdom, as the Bible understands it, challenges the mind-set of our society and the view of knowledge that all of… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“And there we recognize that our frailty is not meant to cause us anxiety and sorrow. Rather, God means it to be a source… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“The Garden of Eden was the place where the first human creatures might have acquired wisdom: Eden was the place for total intimacy with… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“What gives a liturgy its plot? A liturgy is always a sort of drama, that is, an intentional sequence of events, however simple or… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“Contrition means finding the courage to let your heart break over sin. Willfully letting your heart break and then offering the pieces to God… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“The fourth-century Greek theologian St. John Chrysostom said that Job's greatest trial was that his wife was not taken.” — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“God accommodates [Moses'] complaints and makes in-course corrections. God does not take a human being so fully into the divine confidence--you might say, God… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“The problem was acutely described in 1909 in a penetrating essay by Adolf Schlatter: According to the sceptical position, it is true that the… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“...Job rails against God, not as a skeptic, not as a stranger to God's justice, but precisely as a believer. It is the very… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
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![“And there we recognize that our frailty is not meant to cause us anxiety and sorrow. Rather, God means it to be a source of confidence, and even, as it was for Etty [the Dutch Jew previously mentioned that died in Auschwitz], a source of joy. For it is exactly that frailty--the strict limits to…” quote by Ellen F. Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/435/ellen-f-davis-25448_certainty-of-death_and-there-we-recognize-that-our-frailty_726927.jpg)
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