Scroll, Sage & Stage: A Thanksgiving Video Series Jacob's Pain in an Age of Change: Notes from a Novelist and & Commentator | Straus Center Resident Scholar Rabbi Dov Lerner.  *Thanksgiving Special! Get 10% off the Straus Center's Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States, published by The Toby Press, until December 10 using code "Straus." Purchase at https://www.korenpub.com/* As Enlightenment forces swept through the west in the 18th century, ushering in an age of reason and new civic freedoms, particularistic faith came under threat, and the biblical text was shredded by critics. The age of reason gave way to a surge of romantic feeling, and a cast of novelists and playwrights sought to rehabilitate the Bible—but as they did, they reshaped it, changing how it had been read for centuries. The clash between an Anglo-Irish novelist and a Jewish-Polish commentator—both reacting to the pain of Jacob in the presence of an emperor—exhibits this tension and offers a lesson for this Thanksgiving. Learn more at https://www.yu.edu/straus  Follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@YUStrausCenter)