Ben-Gurion framed Jewish scripture as humanity’s unmatched moral and religious legacy

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The Books which were created and sanctified in Israel gave the Jewish people and the entire human race a moral and religious legacy that would never be matched; it is a legacy that holds an eternal, national and universal vision that brings light to the darkest of human conditions and can guide the individual and society in the path of justice, peace, grace and truth. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 543

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• CANDY: Fun elevator fact: the founding Israeli PM’s grand claim about the Bible’s legacy, in his own words, is quotable and surprising for its rhetorical scale.