The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought
Title | The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Katell Berthelot |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2014-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019995982X |
A compelling analysis of Jewish thought from ancient times to the present on the issue of the gift of the land of Israel and the fate of the Canaanites.
Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures
Title | Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Ehud Krinis |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 2021-10-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110702266 |
In his academic career, that by now spans six decades, Daniel J. Lasker distinguished himself by the wide range of his scholarly interests. In the field of Jewish theology and philosophy he contributed significantly to the study of Rabbinic as well as Karaite authors. In the field of Jewish polemics his studies explore Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew texts, analyzing them in the context of their Christian and Muslim backgrounds. His contributions refer to a wide variety of authors who lived from the 9th century to the 18th century and beyond, in the Muslim East, in Muslin and Christian parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and in west and east Europe. This Festschrift for Daniel J. Lasker consists of four parts. The first highlights his academic career and scholarly achievements. In the three other parts, colleagues and students of Daniel J. Lasker offer their own findings and insights in topics strongly connected to his studies, namely, intersections of Jewish theology and Biblical exegesis with the Islamic and Christian cultures, as well as Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relations. Thus, this wide-scoped and rich volume offers significant contributions to a variety of topics in Jewish Studies.
Ancient Israel's Neighbors
Title | Ancient Israel's Neighbors PDF eBook |
Author | Brian R. Doak |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0190690593 |
Ancient Israel's Neighbors explores both the biblical portrayal of the neighboring groups directly surrounding Israel-the Canaanites, Philistines, Phoenicians, Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, and Arameans-and examines what we can know about these groups through their own literature, archaeology, and other sources. This book will invite readers into journey of scholarly discovery to explore the world of Israel's identity within its most immediate ancient NearEastern context.
Violence in the Hebrew Bible
Title | Violence in the Hebrew Bible PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2020-07-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004434682 |
In Violence in the Hebrew Bible scholars reflect on texts of violence in the Hebrew Bible, as well as their often problematic reception history. Authoritative texts and traditions can be rewritten and adapted to new circumstances and insights. Texts are subject to a process of change. The study of the ways in which these (authoritative) biblical texts are produced and/or received in various socio-historical circumstances discloses a range of theological and ideological perspectives. In reflecting on these issues, the central question is how to allow for a given text’s plurality of possible and realised meanings while also retaining the ability to form critical judgments regarding biblical exegesis. This volume highlight that violence in particular is a fruitful area to explore this tension.
The Oxford Handbook of Levinas
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Levinas PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Morgan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 975 |
Release | 2019-04-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190910690 |
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) emerged as an influential philosophical voice in the final decades of the twentieth century, and his reputation has continued to flourish and increase in our own day. His central themes--the primacy of the ethical and the core of ethics as our responsibility to and for others--speak to readers from a host of disciplines and perspectives. However, his writings and thought are challenging and difficult. The Oxford Handbook of Levinas contains essays that aim to clarify and engage Levinas and his writings in a number of ways. Some focus on central themes of his work, others on the ways in which he read and was influenced by figures from Plato, Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant to Blanchot, Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida. And there are essays on how his thinking has been appropriated in moral and political thought, psychology, film criticism, and more, and on the relation between his thinking and religious themes and traditions. Finally, several essays deal primarily with how readers have criticized him and found him wanting. The volume exposes and explores both the depth of Levinas's philosophical work and the range of applications to which it has been put, with special attention to clarifying why his interests in the human condition, the crisis of civilization, the centrality and character of ethics and morality, and the very meaning of human experience should be of interest to the widest range of readers.
Menachem Kellner: Jewish Universalism
Title | Menachem Kellner: Jewish Universalism PDF eBook |
Author | Hava Tirosh-Samuelson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2015-07-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004298282 |
Menachem Kellner is an American-born scholar of Jewish philosophy, an educator, and a public intellectual who lives in Israel. For over three decades he taught at the University of Haifa, where he held the Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Chair of Jewish Religious Thought as well as several high-level administrative positions. Currently he teaches Jewish philosophy at Shalem College, Israel’s first liberal arts college, which seeks to integrate Western and Jewish texts. Trained in ethics and political philosophy, Kellner specializes in medieval Jewish philosophy, arguing that Maimonides’ rationalist universalism should serve as the ideal for contemporary Jewish life. Creatively fusing Zionism, modern Orthodoxy, and democracy, his vision of Judaism is open to and engaged with the modern world.
Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Title | Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Mladen Popović |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2018-08-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3110596601 |
Few studies focus on the modes of knowledge transmission (or concealment), or the trends of continuity or change from the Ancient to the Late Antique worlds. In Antiquity, knowledge was cherished as a scarce good, cultivated through the close teacher-student relationship and often preserved in the closed circle of the initated. From Assyrian and Babylonian cuneiform texts to a Shi'ite Islamic tradition, this volume explores how and why knowledge was shared or concealed by diverse communities in a range of Ancient and Late Antique cultural contexts. From caves by the Dead Sea to Alexandria, both normative and heterodox approaches to knowledge in Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities are explored. Biblical and qur'anic passages, as well as gnostic, rabbinic and esoteric Islamic approaches are discussed. In this volume, a range of scholars from Assyrian studies to Jewish, Christian and Islamic studies examine diverse approaches to, and modes of, knowledge transmission and concealment, shedding new light on both the interconnectedness, as well as the unique aspects, of the monotheistic faiths, and their relationship to the ancient civilisations of the Fertile Crescent.