Ron Troxel
@ronltroxel.bsky.social
I am a professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where my area was Hebrew Bible, with publications in the Prophets, the Septuagint and Peshitta of Isaiah, and textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible.
Sage comments by Arthur Krystal (the Neew Yorker)
If the Apocalypse is a fact, then all other facts follow obediently toward its realization, making human agency and history itself beside the point. (Thus echoing Buber’s “Everything here is predetermined, all human decisions are only sham struggles.
If the Apocalypse is a fact, then all other facts follow obediently toward its realization, making human agency and history itself beside the point. (Thus echoing Buber’s “Everything here is predetermined, all human decisions are only sham struggles.
January 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Sage comments by Arthur Krystal (the Neew Yorker)
If the Apocalypse is a fact, then all other facts follow obediently toward its realization, making human agency and history itself beside the point. (Thus echoing Buber’s “Everything here is predetermined, all human decisions are only sham struggles.
If the Apocalypse is a fact, then all other facts follow obediently toward its realization, making human agency and history itself beside the point. (Thus echoing Buber’s “Everything here is predetermined, all human decisions are only sham struggles.