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Tuesday, December 24 • 19:00 - 20:00
What is literal meaning in Judaism, Islam and Christianity?

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Literal meaning is omnipresent in the three Abrahamic religions. The peshat in the Talmud is hardly ever the literal meaning that Paul condemns when he says: 'The letter kills, the spirit gives life'. In Islam also, the literal meaning plays a role, but not the one you may think...
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Stefan Goltzberg

Stefan is a post-doc researcher at the University of Cambridge and visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Areas of research include legal argumentation, philosophy of language, linguistics and Hebrew grammar. Author of three books on legal argumentation and several... Read More →

Tuesday December 24, 2013 19:00 - 20:00 GMT
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