{"id":1017,"date":"2010-08-23T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/quote-of-the-day-adele-berlin\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T15:33:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-adele-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/quote-of-the-day-adele-berlin.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Adele Berlin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #660000\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #660000\">Above all, we must keep in mind that narrative is a<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #660000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, serif\"><em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #660000\">form of representation<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #660000\">. Abraham in Genesis is not a real person any more than a painting of an apple is a real fruit. This is not a judgment on the existence of a historical Abraham any more than it is a statement about the existence of apples.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333333;font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, serif;font-size: 14px\"><br><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333333;font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, serif;font-size: 14px\">\u2014 Adele Berlin, <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333333;font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, serif;font-size: 14px\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Poetics-Interpretation-Biblical-Narrative-Berlin\/dp\/1575060027?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1575060027\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333333;font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, serif;font-size: 14px\">, p.13<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333333;font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, serif;font-size: 14px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">Quoted in a review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefloppyhat.com\/2010\/08\/23\/poetics-and-interpretation-of-biblical-narrative-by-adele-berlin-chapter-one\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Floppy Hat<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1185854478139611897?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAbove all, we must keep in mind that narrative is a\u00a0form of representation. 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