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Stephen D. Geller (born August 31, 1940 in Los Angeles, California [1]) is an American screenwriter and novelist. He wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut 's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, [2][3] and has worked in the film industry in Hollywood and Europe.
Jan 5, 2024 · Geller is the author of Sacred Enigmas: Literary Religion in the Hebrew Bible. He is currently working on a commentary on the Book of Psalms. Prof. Rabbi Stephen A. Geller is the Irma Cameron Milstein Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
- Loving and Fearing God: New Ideas
- Unique Deuteronomic Thinking About God
- The Josianic Reform
- How to Serve God Best: The Deuteronomic Versus The Priestly School
- The Deuteronomic Movement
In Deuteronomy 12, Moses tells the community about what God expects from the people as they enter into the Promised Land. On the face of it, there is nothing radical about what Moses is describing; Jewish liturgical and philosophical texts incorporate the commandments to fear and love God and to observe the commandments with a full heart and soul. ...
The phrase, “to love the Lord your God,” appears eight times in the Book of Deuteronomy, two times in Joshua and nowhere else in the Bible! The demand that Israel fear God never appears in Torah before Deuteronomy, where the phrase occurs nine times.Following the Five Books of Moses, this demand appears only a handful of times. The phrase, “to walk...
In order to answer these questions, we begin with Deuteronomy’s place in biblical history. 2 Kings 22-23 describe a series of radical reforms that King Josiah enacted during the latter part of the seventh century BCE. These reforms included the abolishment of all places of worship to foreign gods in the lands that Josiah controlled, the destruction...
The vision of the Deuteronomists contrasts sharply with that of the Priestly writers, who believed that God demanded the ongoing enactment of a complex series of rituals to ensure that the divine presence, God’s kavod, would remain within the Tabernacle, which represented the later Temple. The Deuteronomists rejected the idea that God could physica...
Stephen Geller has described the project of Deuteronomy with great eloquence: It should therefore come as no surprise that the most important Jewish prayer, the Shema, comes from the Book of Deuteronomy, and that the second paragraph of that prayer is taken from Deuteronomy 11. We can thank Deuteronomy for teaching us the importance of yirat Adonai...
Stephen Geller was born on August 31, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Mother's Little Helpers (2005) and Ashanti (1979). He is married to Kae Geller.
- August 31, 1940
Stephen Geller Bio. With his adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5, winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, Stephen Geller began working in the international film industries, with Rome as his home base, for nearly twenty years.
Stephen Geller was born on 31 August 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Mother's Little Helpers (2005) and Ashanti (1979). He is married to Kae Geller.
Jan 23, 2022 · Prof. Rabbi Stephen A. Geller is the Irma Cameron Milstein Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard and his ordination from JTS. Geller is the author of Sacred Enigmas: Literary Religion in the Hebrew Bible.
