Articles in Robert M Kaplan
Like a Virgin – Limmud Oz for the Very First Time
By Robert M Kaplan
“They want you to give a talk at something called Limmud-Oz”, said my publisher, a woman of enormous capability and an undistilled admiration for the organising capacity of the late Mr Ceausescu. …
Ezekiel the Prophet
Ezekiel’s attitude to women goes way beyond the extreme. Taking into account that biblical women were often described as feckless, seductive and immoral, Ezekiel’s portrayal of them as harlots is only the start. In Chapter 16, he uses the story of a marriage that fails; God is the husband, Jerusalem is the wife. As a literary analogy this is simply superb – the relationship falters, then fails – but the wife becomes a whore, nothing less than an insatiable nymphomaniac.
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