The Grammar of God
A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
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Kirsten Potter
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Aviya Kushner
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Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. She knew much of it by heart - and was therefore surprised when, while getting her MFA at the University of Iowa, she took the novelist Marilynne Robinson's class on the Old Testament and discovered she barely recognized the text she thought she knew so well. Kushner began discussing the experience with Robinson, who became a mentor, and her interest in the differences between the ancient language and the modern one gradually became an obsession.
In this eye-opening chronicle, Kushner tells the story of her vibrant relationship to the Bible and along the way illustrates how the differences in translation affect our understanding of our culture's most important written work.
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Ariel Burger first met Elie Wiesel at age 15. They studied together and taught together. Witness chronicles the intimate conversations between these two men over decades as Burger sought counsel on matters of intellect, spirituality, and faith while navigating his own personal journey from boyhood to manhood, from student and assistant to rabbi and, in time, teacher. In this profoundly hopeful, thought-provoking, and inspiring audiobook, Burger takes us into Elie Wiesel's classroom, where the art of listening and storytelling conspire to keep memory alive.
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Touching and enlightening
- By Yakira Colish on 03-12-19
By: Ariel Burger
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Known
- Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World
- By: Dick Foth, Ruth Foth
- Narrated by: Dick Foth, Ruth Foth
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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In a shallow light-speed world, how can we really know and be known by another person? How do we make true friends? The Digital Age is all about change, but the need for true friendship never changes. We are designed for real engagement with others - for affirmation that goes beyond a simple "like" on social media, for connection over meals, for hope and excitement about the future. Above all, we need to be known and accepted for who we are.
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Love the Foths
- By Jenni B on 07-22-17
By: Dick Foth, and others
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The Fire This Time
- A New Generation Speaks About Race
- By: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrated by: Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping-off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.
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Delusion shattering
- By Matthew A. Burnett on 06-12-20
By: Jesmyn Ward
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Poetry in Person
- Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
- By: Lucille Clifton, Alexander Neubauer - editor, Eamon Grennan, and others
- Narrated by: Alexander Neubauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets (Knopf, 2010), invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets. Full of compelling, in-depth conversation about manuscripts and drafts by the poets themselves, plus readings of the finished poems, these historic recordings offer one of the most detailed portraits ever produced of how poems are actually made.
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Fascinating
- By d on 08-28-16
By: Lucille Clifton, and others
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Tales of Wonder
- By: Huston Smith
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Huston Smith, the man who brought the world's religions to the West, was born almost a century ago to missionary parents in China during the perilous rise of the Communist Party. Smith's lifelong spiritual journey brought him face-to-face with many of the people who shaped the 20th century. His extraordinary travels around the globe have taken him to the world's holiest places, where he has practiced religion with many of the great spiritual leaders of our time.
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Takes of wonder for sure, by a wonderful man.
- By Dr. D. Brian Austin on 04-03-19
By: Huston Smith
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The Faith Club
- A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search for Understanding
- By: Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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After September 11, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent, faced constant questions about Islam, God, and death from her children, the only Muslims in their classrooms. Inspired by a story about Muhammad, Ranya reached out to two other mothers to write an interfaith children's book that would highlight the connections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Wow I'm so glad I read this. I had no idea.
- By Michelle Pierce on 05-06-15
By: Ranya Idliby, and others
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The Mathematician's Shiva
- By: Stuart Rojstaczer
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil, Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch, just wants to mourn his mother in peace. But rumor has it the notoriously eccentric Polish émigré has solved one of the most difficult problems in all of mathematics and has spitefully taken the solution to her grave. A ragtag group of mathematicians from around the world descends upon Rachela's shiva, determined to find the proof or solve it for themselves - even if it means prying up the floorboards for notes.
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Great read
- By Lee Crowe on 07-27-15
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The Possessed
- Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
- By: Elif Batuman
- Narrated by: Elif Batuman
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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In The Possessed we watch Elif Batuman investigate a possible murder at Tolstoy's ancestral estate. We go with her to Stanford, Switzerland, and St. Petersburg; retrace Pushkin's wanderings in the Caucasus; learn why Old Uzbek has 100 different words for crying; and see an 18th-century ice palace reconstructed on the Neva. Love and the novel, the individual in history, the existential plight of the graduate student: all find their places in The Possessed.
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Dear Russian Literary Diary...
- By Darwin8u on 08-29-17
By: Elif Batuman
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Holy Envy
- Finding God in the Faith of Others
- By: Barbara Brown Taylor
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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The renowned and beloved New York Times best-selling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.
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Narrator’s use of a “Southern Accent” was extremely distracting
- By Mary Pat on 03-13-19
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Without You, There Is No Us
- My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- By: Suki Kim
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST).
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The King and I meets Mary Poppins
- By Michael on 02-22-15
By: Suki Kim
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Nostalgia
- Going Home in a Homeless World
- By: Anthony Esolen
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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Alone among the creatures of the world, man suffers a pang both bitter and sweet. It is an ache for the homecoming. The Greeks called it nostalgia. Post-modern man, homeless almost by definition, cannot understand nostalgia. If he is a progressive, dreaming of a utopia to come, he dismisses it contemptuously, eager to bury a past he despises. If he is a reactionary, he sentimentalizes it, dreaming of a lost golden age. In this profound reflection, Anthony Esolen explores the true meaning of nostalgia and its place in the human heart.
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Deep and thought provoking.
- By Holly Stockley on 04-24-19
By: Anthony Esolen
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And After the Fire
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Belfer
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Simon Vance
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a seemingly deserted mansion and mistakenly kills the girl who tries to stop him. In America in 2010, Henry's niece, Susanna Kessler, struggles to rebuild her life after she experiences a devastating act of violence on the streets of New York City. When Henry dies soon after, she uncovers the long-hidden music manuscript.
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Very disappointing
- By Margalarg on 06-28-19
By: Lauren Belfer
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- agarista
- 09-21-23
Thrilled about topic. Conflicted about narration.
Definitely hits the mark with what it sets out to do and was exactly what I had been looking for. The information presented is endlessly fascinating and the reader is pleasant to listen to - BUT, but…unfortunately here’s the massive conflict. It is so jarring to listen to a book that is essentially about the deep love for Hebrew, read by someone with a dreadfully wooden ear for the music and pronunciation of the language. The pleasure of taking in all this wonderful information is marred by the inevitable and automatic flinch brought about by the dreadful mangling of Hebrew words, names and phrases.
Unfortunately that’s something I’ve noticed in other Audible narrations - readers often don’t seem to care very much about pronunciation of snippets in other languages. In this day and age that’s disappointing and could be easily remedied.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-25-20
If you love the Holy Scriptures ...
My mother is Chilean and my father Jewish. My father took me aside when I was young and told me to study the scriptures, and my mom taught me how to pray, for both of which I will always be grateful. These two things are the stay and the staff of my life. But I have holy envy for families where the scriptures accompany mealtime conversations and are the fiber of everyday living. I recently read of one such family in The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner, a Jewess. The book was very well written and extremely moving. I was smitten from the introduction forward and it was very difficult to put it down. I found myself frequently crying and laughing. The Audible version, despite some of the Hebrew pronunciation issues, was nothing short of marvelous. I loved the reading of the book by Kristen Potter. The book gave me much food for thought and contemplation and I will have to re-listen to it again and again and take copious notes. In addition, Aviya opened up her heart and her home for an outsider such as myself to join in the celebration of His Word. I feel as if I was one of her brothers at the dinner table for which I will forever be grateful. For those who love the Hebrew Bible, both Jew and Christian, this book will make you think and ponder and analyze, and think again. Thanks Aviya Kushner. May the Holy One of Israel bless you. Gregorio Billikopf, Llanquihue, Chile
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- Do not use name
- 05-31-20
Good Information About Translations
While it was not as detailed as I had hoped, I think the author did explain enough to help the reader understand that translations really make a difference in how one understands what was originally written.
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- Neshamareader
- 12-28-20
Please!! Get reader who knows how to pronounce words!!
I am so very fond of this book and so very irritated by the reader’s poor pronunciation of Hebrew terms. It makes listening very frustrating and is shocking from a company that certainly should know better. I’m also surprised that the author didn’t assist or find this rendering of her work utterly unacceptable.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-05-23
Fantastic read!
Lots of insights to be had here. Will be studying more texts with this in mind.
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- B. Jobe
- 03-12-16
Conversational and warm/personal
Conversational narration that is realistic and warm and really makes the text a personal journey from the author to the listener. Important information about Bible meaning and translation and about the Holocaust.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-28-17
a sobering read
I liked this book. it reminded me not to be too dogmatic about my views of scripture since my English reading of the text might be far removed from the Hebrew writing of the text.
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- Emily
- 04-23-18
Fascinating and Magnetic!
This book is an outstanding exploration of the Bible's themes, cultures, and language. Each chapter weaves Biblical knowledge with cultural knowledge, grammatical understanding, and personal history to create a work that is utterly mesmerizing. I finished this book over the course of three days because I simply could not put it down!
The chapters each handle a particular element of Biblical storytelling — Song, Memory, Man, etc. The narrator's performance is moving and expressive, and I especially love the way she handled the Hebrew and Yiddish elements of the book. I have no experience with these languages, but her delivery was powerful and thoughtful.
This is a book that will haunt you and make you weep. It is also a book that will make you laugh out loud and clap for joy. It's an absolutely fascinating experience for anyone remotely interested in the Bible's message.
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- B. Schwitzer
- 09-04-22
Amazing book - Terrible Performance
As a Jewish Educator, this book will be a must read for future classes. Easy to read, delightfully poignant…BUT for a book that discusses the importance of translation, the audio CLEARLY was not edited or performed by someone who reads Hebrew. There were SO many mispronunciations, I found myself yelling out loud in frustration.
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