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Jesus enjoys the rabbinic practice of arguing over the interpretation of Scripture and is unafraid to ask hard questions of the text before him. This is central to Jewish traditions of study, depicted well in Barbra Streisand’s film Yentl , about a young woman who poses as a boy in order to study the Talmud. The opening song begins with the words, ‘There’s not a morning I begin without a thousand questions running through my mind…’.