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Catholic author thanks Jews for Western values

Review by April Witt for Miami Herald

Published: Tuesday, April 14, 1998,

If not for the Jews, no one would know to love justice, yearn for freedom, struggle for faith in one God or hope for a tomorrow better than today.

Jews helped invent Western culture and without Jewish ideas and values there would be no civil rights movement, democracy or even history.

That's the central, sweeping premise of The Gifts of the Jews, the latest book by Roman Catholic scholar and best-selling author Thomas Cahill.

''The Jews gave us the Outside and the Inside -- our outlook and our inner life,'' writes Cahill, who will be at Temple Judea in Coral Gables tonight to talk about the book.

''We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact -- new, adventure, surprise; unique, individual, person, vocation; time, history, future; freedom, program, spirit; faith, hope, j


In Gifts, Cahill portrays Abraham as the first human in history who welcomed adventure. He retells the story of the Jewish patriarch and argues that when Abraham in Genesis heeded God's call to go forth, leaving his land and kin -- with faith, but no firm plan -- something entirely new in history was happening.

''It was so totally alien to me. It came as a shock to me, over that period of time in Ireland, that the real difference between me and what I could feel of this alien culture was the Bible,'' Cahill said.

''I tell history as a story and people love stories,'' Cahill said in a telephone interview Monday. ''It's a human need.''

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''The Bible was the matrix of the values that I really care about. It came as a real shock. I don't think it's taught that way, and I had a perfectly good education.''



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