Challenging traditional views, this text sets biblical Hebrew (the sacred language) within the life and dynamics of Hebrew thinking. Doukhan uses both deductive and inductive methods in order to make his case for rendering the learning of Hebrew simple, exciting and theologically relevant.

Christianity, Judaism and Islam have sometimes been more closely identified not for what they offer to save the world but for what they bring to destabilize it. It is one of the depressing paradoxes of religion, supposedly a force for good, that it is all too frequently the occasion for conflict instead of peace, generosity and better treatment of one's neighbor. The contributors to this volume start from the premise that there is a price to be paid by the 'sons of Abraham': whether Jews, Muslims or Christians. And that is the cost of learning how to be brothers through mutual and attentive...