Reading the Bible with Rabbi Jesus: How a Jewish Perspective Can Transform Your Understanding

by Lois Tverberg

“You have brought trouble on me by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites” (Gen. 34:30). Hebrew speaks of being obnoxious or repulsive by speaking of a person’s “bad odor,” or ba’ash (bah-AHSH).