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"maff" |
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03 Sep 2005 06:56:52 AM |
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Amos Oz |
The devil's progress
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1561003,00.html
Modern social science has banished concepts of good and evil. But,
argues Amos Oz, literature, from Shakespeare and Goethe to Grass and
B=F6ll, gives us truer insights into human nature
Saturday September 3, 2005
The Guardian
When I was a child in Jerusalem, our teacher at a Jewish orthodox
school taught us the book of Job. All Israeli children, to this day,
study the book of Job. Our teacher told us how Satan travelled all the
way from that book to the New Testament, and to Goethe's Faust, and to
many other works of literature. And although each writer made something
new of Satan, the devil, der Teufel, he was always the very same Satan:
cool, amused, sarcastic and sceptical. A deconstructor of human faith,
love and hope.
Amos Oz
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/80e4028bac6f547f
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| Title: The devil's progress |
03 Sep 2005 07:28:19 AM |
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The devil's progress
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1561003,00.html
Modern social science has banished concepts of good and evil. But,
argues Amos Oz, literature, from Shakespeare and Goethe to Grass and
B=F6ll, gives us truer insights into human nature
Saturday September 3, 2005
The Guardian
When I was a child in Jerusalem, our teacher at a Jewish orthodox
school taught us the book of Job. All Israeli children, to this day,
study the book of Job. Our teacher told us how Satan travelled all the
way from that book to the New Testament, and to Goethe's Faust, and to
many other works of literature. And although each writer made something
new of Satan, the devil, der Teufel, he was always the very same Satan:
cool, amused, sarcastic and sceptical. A deconstructor of human faith,
love and hope.
Amos Oz
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/80e4028bac6f547f
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