Abe Socher
Professor of religion and Jewish Studies.
Opinions
Great teacher general all round good guy —129.98.243.148 (23:11, 30 December 2008EST)
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Quotes
"Imagine that the op-ed pages of the New York Times were witty..." [1]
"[Martin] Buber was the first great tree-hugger of the twentieth century." [2]
"I don't think I wrote a paper longer than fifteen pages before I wrote my dissertation. Anyhow, most papers longer than fifteen pages shouldn't be." [3]
"It's because of the high premium put on bullshit in graduate school." [4]
on Voltaire: "Brilliant, witty...and perhaps just a little bit shallow." [5]
on Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary: "It's a great read. My father kept it on the back of the toilet in his bathroom." [6]
"I want the Torah, but I need sex: the rabbinic student dilemma." [7]
on Geertz: "He loves them witches and that is some crazy shit!"
"Doctors, they're just glorified technicians"
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