60 Michael S. Stroh

5. H. Freedman and Maurice Simon(ed.) Midrash Rabbah, London . 1961.

Genesis(vayera), p. 485.

6. Ibid., Genesis(vayera), p. 497.

7. Ibid., Genesis(vayera), p. 498.

8. Ibid., Genesis(vayera), p. 495. 9..:.Gen.,18:23-32.

10. P. Talmud Berakhot, 9:5.

11. Sigmund Freud , Civilization, And Its Discontents, London , 1963, p. 49.

12. Sigmund Freud , Beyond The Pleasure, 1963, p. 70.

13. Richard L. Rubenstein , 4fter Auschwitz , Indianapolis , New York and Kansas City , 1966, p. 18.

14. Leviticus 16:8-10. 15. Leviticus 14:5-7. 16. Rene Girard , The Girard Reader, New York , 2000, p.11.

17. Ibid. p. 12.

18. James G. Williams, The Bible, Violence& The Sacred, San Francisco ,

1991, p. 12.

All Talmud translations are from The Talmud, The Soncino Press, I. Epstein , editor, London , 1948. Midrash translations are from Midrash Rabbah, The Soncino Press, H. Freedman and Maurice Simon, editors, London and New York , 1983. Some adjustments have been made in the translations to suit modern style.