{"id":1365,"date":"2011-09-27T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T20:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2011-09-27T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T20:59:11","slug":"six-quotes-damrosch-on-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/09\/27\/six-quotes-damrosch-on-exodus\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Quotes: Damrosch on Exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>\u201cThink of the Bible as Woody Allen\u2019s recipe for chicken salad.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe drama of this epic is that at every moment God gives them what they need, and the next moment, they fuck up again.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLaw is the emotional center of Exodus. The stories exist as the frame FOR the law.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAaron should be like Moses\u2019 chief executive officer. Instead of doing that, he tells the people what they want to hear.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRitual order itself carries with it this weight of trauma history. Ritual order is the heart of the cool stories; it is the heart of the Torah. \u201c<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe wilderness becomes the promised land, if you understand.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>As recorded by Core office employee Sydney Lindberg during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.harvard.edu\/scholarship-and-research\/faculty-profiles\/david-damrosch-professor-comparative-literature-department\">Prof. David Damrosch&#8217;s<\/a> discussion of the book of Exodus this morning in CC101.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThink of the Bible as Woody Allen\u2019s recipe for chicken salad.\u201d \u201cThe drama of this epic is that at every moment God gives them what they need, and the next moment, they fuck up again.\u201d \u201cLaw is the emotional center of Exodus. The stories exist as the frame FOR the law.\u201d \u201cAaron should be like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3860],"tags":[3689,3839],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}