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Torah and Sophia

Author : Raphael Jospe
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 0878201505
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Torah and Sophia written by Raphael Jospe and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 1988-12-31 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The century following the death of Maimonides (1204) witnessed widespread upheaval and turmoil as anti-rationalist Jews attempted to ban the study of philosophy. For such rationalist philosophers as Shem Tov ibn Falaquera (c. 1225-1291), however, Judaism could not be restricted to the confines of the spiritual and intellectual ghetto; the free minds of Jews could not be shackled in the name of Judaism. In many respects, Falaquera epitomizes the way in which philosophy succeeded in finding a home in Judaism in the Middle Ages. The pioneering philosophical efforts of earlier luminaries made an enduring impact on the course of Jewish history and the religious and intellectual life of the Jewish people through their Hebrew translation and cultural consolidation at the hands of Jewish philosophers like Falaquera. As a prolific Hebrew poet, translator, popularize of science and philosophy, encyclopedist, defender of Maimonides, Bible commentator, historian of philosophy, and philosopher in his own right, Falaquera manifested a loving commitment to both Torah and secular wisdom (hokhmah, Sophia) and the conviction that both Torah and Sophia ultimately must be in harmony, if not identical. Raphael Jospe's exhaustive study of the life and thought of Shem Tov ibn Falaquera provides students of medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy for the first time with a systematic and comprehensive presentation of Falaquera's philosophy. Reflecting Falaquera's own philosophic and curricular priorities, the book focuses in particular depth on his psychology, in light of and in comparison to his Arabic sources. In the tradition of scholarly text analysis, the book also offers a critical Hebrew edition and annotated English translation of Falaquera's systematic psychological study, Sefer Ha-Nefesh (Book of the Soul), as well as a critical and annotated edition of his previously unpublished ethical work, Shelemut Ha-Ma'asim (Perfection of Actions), and - also for the first time - the surviving fragments, with English translation, of Falaquera'a Bible commentary.

Two Gods in Heaven

Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691181322
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Two Gods in Heaven written by Peter Schäfer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book Peter Schäfer casts light on the common assumption that Judaism from its earliest formulations was strictly monotheistic. Over and over again in the Hebrew Bible the biblical writers insist upon the idea that there is one and only one God. But the biblical text is multifarious and contains many sources that subvert from within the strong monotheistic thesis. Old Canaanite deities such as Baal and El, although pushed to the edges, prove stubbornly persistent. They come to the forefront in, for example, the famous "Son of Man" of chapter 7 of the Book of Daniel. In sum, Schäfer argues that monotheism was an ideal in ancient Judaism that was consistently aspired to, but never fully achieved. Through close textual analysis of the Bible and certain key post-biblical sources, Schäfer tracks the long history of a second, younger, subordinate God next to the senior Jewish God YHWH. One might expect that with early Christianity's embrace of this idea (in the form of Jesus Christ), Judaism would have abandoned it utterly. But the opposite was the case. Even after Christianity usurps the original Jewish notion of a second, younger God, certain post-biblical Jewish circles-in particular early Jewish mystical circles-maintained and revived it with the archangel "Metatron," a controversial figure whose very existence is questioned and fiercely debated by the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud. This book was originally published in Germany by C.H. Beck Verlag in 2016"--

The Zohar

Author : Daniel Chanan Matt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804762198
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Zohar written by Daniel Chanan Matt and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of completes the Zohar's commentary on the book of Genesis. Throughout, the Zohar probes the biblical text and seeks deeper meaning--for example, the divine intention behind Joseph's disappearance, or the profound significance of human sexuality.

Preliminary biblical studies

Author : David M. Steimle
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 131254550X
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Preliminary biblical studies written by David M. Steimle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a compilation of research designed to assist students researching the Bible and passing a program at a University in biblical studies. It covers a myriad of topics focusing primarily on the biblical text and contains deeper exposition on texts and themes commonly researched in an undergraduate, Graduate Christian studies, and Masters in Divinity programs that focus on the Bible. This text is divided by the Old and New Testament and further subdivided based on traditional category of the Bible.

The Exegetical Imagination

Author : Michael Fishbane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674274617
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Exegetical Imagination written by Michael Fishbane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exegesis - interpretation and explanation of sacred texts - is the quintessence of rabinic thought. This volume delineates the connections between biblical interpretation and Jewish religious thought.

The Signifying Creator

Author : Michael D. Swartz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147985557X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Signifying Creator written by Michael D. Swartz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the belief in ancient Judaism that God embedded hidden signs and visual clues in the natural world that could be read by human beings and interpreted according to complex systems.

"When Gods Were Men"

Author : Esther J. Hamori
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110206714
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book "When Gods Were Men" written by Esther J. Hamori and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the texts of Genesis 18 and 32, God appears to a patriarch in person and is referred to by the narrator as a man, both times by the Hebrew word īsh. In both texts, God as īsh is described in graphically human terms. This type of divine appearance is identified here as the "īsh theophany". The phenomenon of God appearing in concrete human form is first distinguished from several other types of anthropomorphism, such as divine appearance in dreams. The īsh theophany is viewed in relation to appearances of angels and other divine beings in the Bible, and in relation to anthropomorphic appearances of deities in Near Eastern literature. The īsh theophany has implications for our understanding of Israelite concepts of divine-human contact and communication, and for the relationship to Ugaritic literature in particular. The book also includes discussion of philosophical approaches to anthropomorphism. The development of philosophical opposition to anthropomorphism can be traced from Greek philosophy and early Jewish and Christian writings through Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides and Aquinas, and into the work of later philosophers such as Hume and Kant. However, the work of others can be applied fruitfully to the problem of divine anthropomorphism, such as Wittgenstein's language games.

Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel

Author : Jaime L. Waters
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1451485239
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel written by Jaime L. Waters and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vital to an agrarian communitys survival, threshing floors are also depicted in the Hebrew Bible as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Jaime L. Waters examines these sacred functions and the various personnel active in the use and operation of the sites and shows that they were sacred spaces connected to Yahweh, under his control and subject to his power to bless, curse, and save, providing Israel a special ritual access to Yahw

Michael Fishbane: Jewish Hermeneutical Theology

Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004285482
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Michael Fishbane: Jewish Hermeneutical Theology by : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Download or read book Michael Fishbane: Jewish Hermeneutical Theology written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Fishbane is Nathan Cummings Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Trained in biblical studies, he also writes constructive hermeneutic theology.

Genesis

Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Saybrook Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Genesis written by Frederick Turner and published by Saybrook Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Revelation and the God of Israel

Author : Norbert M. Samuelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139434314
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Revelation and the God of Israel written by Norbert M. Samuelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelation and the God of Israel explores the concept of revelation as it emerges from the Hebrew Scriptures and is interpreted in Jewish philosophy and theology. The first part is a study in intellectual history that attempts to answer the question, what is the best possible understanding of revelation. The second part is a study in constructive theology and attempts to answer the question, is it reasonable to affirm belief in revelation. Here Norbert M. Samuelson focuses on the challenges given from a variety of contemporary academic disciplines, including evolutionary psychology, political ethics, analytic philosophy of religion, and source critical studies of the Bible. This important book offers a unique approach to theological questions and fresh solutions to them and will appeal to those interested in the history of philosophy, religious thought, and Judaism.

The Classic Tales

Author : Ellen Frankel
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1461662419
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Classic Tales written by Ellen Frankel and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three hundred Jewish tales in this extraordinary volume span three continents and four millennia. Culled from traditional sources—the Bible, Talmud, Midrash, hasidic texts, and oral folklore—and retold in modern English by Ellen Frankel, these stories represent the brightest jewels in the vast treasure chest of Jewish lore. Beautifully clothed in contemporary language, these classic tales sparkle with the gentle and insightful humor of the Jewish folk imagination. And like so much of Jewish literature, these stories abound in allusions to classic Jewish texts. Biblical cadences, phrases from the prayer book, and ideas from Jewish proverbs and heroic legends resonate in the air when these tales are read or told aloud. In The Classic Tales, history sheds its dust to become as intimate as family memory. While the breadth and depth of this book make it completely unique, three special features also help distinguish it: God appears without gender (though certainly not without personality); women characters, so often nameless in the original biblical text, wear their midrashic names (e.g., Noah's wife Naamah, Abraham's mother Amitlai, Lot's wife Edith); and many tales of Sephardic origin have been included to correct the common American bias toward Eastern European sources. What's more, this volume has been uniquely designed to be of use to educators, rabbis, parents, and students. It features a chronological table of contents as well as six separate indexes?arranged by Jewish holidays, Torah and Haftorah readings, character types, symbols, topics, and proper names and places—to make the tales easily referenced in a wide variety of ways. Anyone who needs a story to inspire a child, to illustrate a point, to develop a sermon, or just to uplift his or her own thirsting soul will find just the right one in The Classic Tales.

The Debilitating Duo

Author : Roche Coleman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666770671
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book The Debilitating Duo written by Roche Coleman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to violate God's moral law without experiencing guilt and shame? Can a person silence their conscience from the strange emotions that emerge when one sin? An examination of the original design of humanity in the imago Dei suggests one cannot sin and avoid the debilitating duo. Humanity is created to live within the moral structure established by God. Therefore, a violation of the divine laws, which is sin, leads to guilt and shame. The strange emotions were innate sensation imparted to humanity to stop rebellion against the moral laws and to compel an offender to acknowledge the offense through the confession of sin. Unconfessed sin debilitates the physical and mental functions of a person created in the image of God. Guilt and shame are the strange emotions that serve as mental guardians for an individual as well as for the society in general. The duo was given as silent deterrents to immoral behaviors.

Three Early Modern Hebrew Scholars on the Mysteries of Song

Author : Don Harrán Z"l
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004283641
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Three Early Modern Hebrew Scholars on the Mysteries of Song written by Don Harrán Z"l and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discoursing on music, three early modern Jewish scholars stand out as original: Judah Moscato presented music as a spiritual phenomenon; Leon Modena asked about the legitimacy of art music in the synagogue; Abraham Portaleone treated music in the Ancient Temple.

The Teachings of Hasidism

Author : Joseph Dan
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780874412239
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis The Teachings of Hasidism by : Joseph Dan

Download or read book The Teachings of Hasidism written by Joseph Dan and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship

Author : Anne-Marie Ellithorpe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119756960
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship written by Anne-Marie Ellithorpe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and incisive exploration of the place and nature of friendship in both its personal and civic dimensions In Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship, distinguished theological researcher Anne-Marie Ellithorpe delivers a constructive and insightful exploration of the place and nature of friendship as innate to being human, to the human vocation, and to life within the broader community. Of particular interest to members and leaders of faith communities, this book responds to contemporary concerns regarding relationality and offers a comprehensive theology of friendship. The author provides an inclusive and interdisciplinary study that brings previous traditions and texts into dialogue with contemporary contexts and concerns, including examples from Indigenous and Euro-Western cultures. Readers will reflect on the theology of friendship and the interrelationship between friendship and community, think critically about their own social and theological imagination, and develop an integrative approach to theological reflection that draws on Don Browning’s Fundamental Practical Theology. Integrating philosophical, anthropological, and theological perspectives on the study of friendship, this book presents: A thorough introduction to contemporary questions on friendship and discussions of co-existing friendship worlds Comprehensive explorations of friendship in first and second testament writings, as well as friendship within classical and Christian traditions Practical discussions of theology, friendship, and the social imagination, including explorations of mutuality and spirit-shaped friendships Considerations for outworking friendship ideals within communities of practice, from the perspective of strategic (or fully) practical theology Perfect for graduate and advanced undergraduate students taking courses on friendship or practical theology, Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars of practical theology and community practitioners, including ministers, priests, pastors, spiritual advisors, and counselors.

The Law and the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Author : Chris A. Vlachos
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597528641
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Law and the Knowledge of Good and Evil written by Chris A. Vlachos and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Corinthians 15:56, The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law, is both puzzling and neglected. It is puzzling since there appears to be no precursor in 1 Corinthians to the law-critical statement found there. It is neglected because of its size. Nevertheless, the short verse offers the opportunity to analyze in a rudimentary state Paul's law-sin notion that appears full-blown in Romans, and the absence of a polemical setting allows scholars to examine a law-critical statement issued during a polemical lull. In The Law and Knowledge of Good and Evil, Vlachos weighs attempts to explain the presence of 1 Cor 15:56 in 1 Corinthians and argues that the Genesis Fall narrative, where the tempter plied his seductions by way of the commandment, provides the theological substructure to Paul's understanding of the law's provocation of sin. In doing so, Vlachos contends that Paul reaches the historical high water mark of his polemic against the salvific efficacy of the law by locating a law-sin nexus in Eden, and, contrary to some recent perspectives on Paul, he argues that the edenically informed axiom in 1 Cor 15:56 suggests that Paul's fundamental concern with the law was rooted in primordial rather than ethnic soil. While studies of Paul and the law have tended to bypass Eden, The Law and Knowledge of Good and Evil breaks ground by moving the argument beyond Second Temple Judaism to the Genesis Fall account, where the prohibition against partaking of the knowledge of good and evil led to the knowledge of sin.