Jeffrey M. Cohen has lectured in Hebrew and biblical studies at the Universities of London and Glasgow. He has written twenty-six books and over two hundred articles on biblical and religious themes. His most recent work is The Book of Psalms: Poetry in Poetry (Wipf & Stock, 2018). Audience responses to his poetic readings at schools and religious and cultural groups have been consistently enthusiastic. He and his wife, Gloria, have four children and fourteen grandchildren.
Table of Contents Preface Foreword 1. The Fertility of the Early Israelites
2. Why We Were Slaves in Egypt 3. Is Freedom a Jewish Concept? 4. A Nation
of Survivors! 5. Searching for the Chametz and the Origin of Pesach 6. The
Symbolism of the Paschal Lamb 7. Why Moses is Not Mentioned in the Haggadah
8. The Four Cups of Wine 9. Four Sons or One? 10. The Son without Questions
11. Dislodging the Wicked Son's Teeth 12. "Not Just Once, but in Every
Generation..." 13. R. Eleazar's Dispute with the Sages 14. A Problem Verse
in Dayyenu 15. Rabban Gamaliel Used to Say... 16. The Message of Hillel's
Sandwich 17. The Spirit of the Shirah 18. Marital Lessons from Shir
Hashirim 19. The Challenge of the Omer Period 20. Lag b'Omer and World
Reconciliation Index
