Author : Yoram Hazony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0521176670
This book offers a new framework for reading the Bible as a work of reason.
Author : Yoram Hazony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139536257
What if the Hebrew Bible wasn't meant to be read as 'revelation'? What if it's not really about miracles or the afterlife – but about how to lead our lives in this world? The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture proposes a new framework for reading the Bible. It shows how biblical authors used narrative and prophetic oratory to advance universal arguments about ethics, political philosophy and metaphysics. It offers bold new studies of biblical narratives and prophetic poetry, transforming forever our understanding of what the stories of Abel, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and David and the speeches of Isaiah and Jeremiah, were meant to teach. The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture assumes no belief in God or other religious commitment. It assumes no previous background in Bible. It is free of disciplinary jargon. Open the door to a book you never knew existed. You'll never read the Bible the same way again.
Author : Yechiel M. Leiter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108428185
John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?
Author : Matthew B. Schwartz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0765709864
In Politics in the Hebrew Bible: God, Man, and Government, Kalman J. Kaplan and Matthew B. Schwartz offer a genre-straddling examination of the political themes in the Jewish Bible. By studying the political implications of 42 biblical stories (organized into the categories Social Order, Government and Leadership, Domestic Relations, Societal Relations, Morale and Mission, and Foreign Policy), the authors seek to discern a cohesive political viewpoint embodied by the Jewish Bible.
Author : Jon Douglas Levenson
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664254070
Writing from a Jewish perspective, Jon Levenson reviews many often neglected theoretical questions. He focuses on the relationship between two interpretive communities--the community of scholars who are committed to the historical-critical method of biblical interpretation and the community responsible for the canonization and preservation of the Bible.
Author : Yoram Hazony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1107132053
This book explores the political crisis that erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics and a Jewish insider goes rogue.
Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300164106
"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor
Author : Benjamin D Sommer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814724604
What do Jews think scripture is? How do the People of the Book conceive of the Book of Books? In what ways is it authoritative? Who has the right to interpret it? Is it divinely or humanly written? And have Jews always thought about the Bible in the same way? In seventeen cohesive and rigorously researched essays, this volume traces the way some of the most important Jewish thinkers throughout history have addressed these questions from the rabbinic era through the medieval Islamic world to modern Jewish scholarship. They address why different Jewish thinkers, writers, and communities have turned to the Bible—and what they expect to get from it. Ultimately, argues editor Benjamin D. Sommer, in understanding the ways Jews construct scripture, we begin to understand the ways Jews construct themselves.
Author : Dr. Joel N. Lohr
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426775644
Jews call the Hebrew Scriptures the “Tanakh” and Christians call them the “Old Testament.” It doesn't take long to see that Jews and Christians view the same set of books differently and interpret these scriptures in unique and at times conflicting ways. The Hebrew Bible for Beginners introduces students to the tremendous influence the Hebrew Bible has had on western society for over two millennia and explores the complexities of reading ancient religious literature today. The book also addresses how certain modern critical approaches may initially be alarming, indeed even shocking, to those who have not been exposed to them, but it tackles the conversation in a respectful fashion. Avoiding jargon and convoluted prose, this highly accessible volume provides textboxes, charts, a timeline, a glossary, and regularly includes artistic renderings of biblical scenes to keep lay and beginning readers engaged.
Author : Yoram Hazony
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0786747234
In what may be the most controversial book on Zionism and Israel published in the last twenty years, Yoram Hazony graphically portrays the cultural and political revolt against Israel's status as the Jewish state. Examining ideological trends in academia, literature, media, law, the armed forces, and the foreign policy establishment, Hazony contends that Israelis are preparing themselves for the final break with the Jewish past and the Jewish future. In a dramatic new reading of Israeli history, Hazony uncovers the story of how Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and other German-Jewish intellectuals bitterly fought against the establishment of Israel, and later used the Hebrew University as a base for deposing David Ben-Gurion and discrediting Labor Zionism. The Jewish State is a must-read for anyone concerned with Israel's present and future.
