Unbinding Isaac

Download Unbinding Isaac full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Unbinding Isaac ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Unbinding Isaac

Author : Aaron Koller
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827618433
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Unbinding Isaac by : Aaron Koller

Download or read book Unbinding Isaac written by Aaron Koller and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbinding Isaac takes readers on a trek of discovery for our times into the binding of Isaac story. Nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard viewed the story as teaching suspension of ethics for the sake of faith, and subsequent Jewish thinkers developed this idea as a cornerstone of their religious worldview. Aaron Koller examines and critiques Kierkegaard's perspective--and later incarnations of it--on textual, religious, and ethical grounds. He also explores the current of criticism of Abraham in Jewish thought, from ancient poems and midrashim to contemporary Israel narratives, as well as Jewish responses to the Akedah over the generations. Finally, bringing together these multiple strands of thought--along with modern knowledge of human sacrifice in the Phoenician world--Koller offers an original reading of the Akedah. The biblical God would like to want child sacrifice--because it is in fact a remarkable display of devotion--but more than that, he does not want child sacrifice because it would violate the child's autonomy. Thus, the high point in the drama is not the binding of Isaac but the moment when Abraham is told to release him. The Torah does not allow child sacrifice, though by contrast, some of Israel's neighbors viewed it as a religiously inspiring act. The binding of Isaac teaches us that an authentically religious act cannot be done through the harm of another human being.

Unbinding Isaac

Author : Aaron Koller
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 082761473X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Unbinding Isaac by : Aaron Koller

Download or read book Unbinding Isaac written by Aaron Koller and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbinding Isaac takes readers on a trek of discovery for our times into the binding of Isaac story. Nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard viewed the story as teaching suspension of ethics for the sake of faith, and subsequent Jewish thinkers developed this idea as a cornerstone of their religious worldview. Aaron Koller examines and critiques Kierkegaard’s perspective—and later incarnations of it—on textual, religious, and ethical grounds. He also explores the current of criticism of Abraham in Jewish thought, from ancient poems and midrashim to contemporary Israel narratives, as well as Jewish responses to the Akedah over the generations. Finally, bringing together these multiple strands of thought—along with modern knowledge of human sacrifice in the Phoenician world—Koller offers an original reading of the Akedah. The biblical God would like to want child sacrifice—because it is in fact a remarkable display of devotion—but more than that, he does not want child sacrifice because it would violate the child’s autonomy. Thus, the high point in the drama is not the binding of Isaac but the moment when Abraham is told to release him. The Torah does not allow child sacrifice, though by contrast, some of Israel’s neighbors viewed it as a religiously inspiring act. The binding of Isaac teaches us that an authentically religious act cannot be done through the harm of another human being.

Unbinding the Binding of Isaac

Author : Mishael Caspi
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761835660
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Unbinding the Binding of Isaac by : Mishael Caspi

Download or read book Unbinding the Binding of Isaac written by Mishael Caspi and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbinding the Binding of Isaac is an anthology of three faiths' interpretations of the Genesis 22:1-19 story. The various exegeses of this story have been mined by the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian faiths for a protracted period of time. The "Aqedah," as the binding story is known universally, stimulates the interests and imaginations of theologians, linguists, poets, historians, and artists of various skills and stripes. The Aqedah continues to stimulate inquiry and application to modern situations. Unbinding the Binding of Isaac is at once ancient and modern in its scope, purpose, and relevance to scholarly inquiry regarding this ongoing debate.

The Unbinding of Isaac

Author : Stephen J. Stern
Publisher : Studies in Judaism
ISBN 13 : 9781433111600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (116 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Unbinding of Isaac by : Stephen J. Stern

Download or read book The Unbinding of Isaac written by Stephen J. Stern and published by Studies in Judaism. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author upends traditional understandings of this controversial narrative through a phenomenological midrash or interpretation of Genesis 22 from the Dialogic and Jewish philosophies of Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and, most notably, Emmanuel Levinas. He intersects Jewish studies, Biblical studies, and philosophy in a literary/midrashic style that challenges traditional Western philosophical epistemology. Through the biblical narrative of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, and Rebecca, he explains that Rosenzweig, Buber, and Levinas Judaically exercise and offer an alternative epistemic orientation to the study of ethics than that of traditional Western or Hellenic-Christian philosophy.

Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought

Author : Aaron Koller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107048354
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought by : Aaron Koller

Download or read book Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought written by Aaron Koller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.

Abraham's Silence

Author : J. Richard Middleton
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493430882
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Abraham's Silence by : J. Richard Middleton

Download or read book Abraham's Silence written by J. Richard Middleton and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is traditional to think we should praise Abraham for his willingness to sacrifice his son as proof of his love for God. But have we misread the point of the story? Is it possible that a careful reading of Genesis 22 could reveal that God was not pleased with Abraham's silent obedience? Widely respected biblical theologian, creative thinker, and public speaker J. Richard Middleton suggests we have misread and misapplied the story of the binding of Isaac and shows that God desires something other than silent obedience in difficult times. Middleton focuses on the ethical and theological problem of Abraham's silence and explores the rich biblical tradition of vigorous prayer, including the lament psalms, as a resource for faith. Middleton also examines the book of Job in terms of God validating Job's lament as "right speech," showing how the vocal Job provides an alternative to the silent Abraham. This book provides a fresh interpretation of Genesis 22 and reinforces the church's resurgent interest in lament as an appropriate response to God.

Ritual Unbound

Author : Thomas Cousineau
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138511
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (385 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ritual Unbound by : Thomas Cousineau

Download or read book Ritual Unbound written by Thomas Cousineau and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the vestiges of primitive sacrificial rituals that emerge in a group of canonical modernist novels, including The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Good Soldier, The Great Gatsby, and To the Lighthouse. It argues that these novels reenact a process that achieved its seminal expression in the Genesis story of The Binding of Isaac, in which Abraham, having been prevented from sacrificing Isaac, offers up a ram in his place. Modernist reenactments of this pattern present narrators who, although vigorously protesting the victimization of certain characters, unfailingly seize upon others as their surrogates. Each novel is designed in such a way, however, as to resist the reconstruction of a sacrificial ritual to which its narrator is prone. The resulting tension between the binding and unbinding of ritual persecution dramatizes the paradox that we can neither believe convincingly in the guilt of our scapegoats nor imagine a society that has dispensed with them entirely. Thomas Cousineau is Professor of English at Washington College in Maryland.

The New Isaac

Author : Leroy Andrew Huizenga
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004175695
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The New Isaac by : Leroy Andrew Huizenga

Download or read book The New Isaac written by Leroy Andrew Huizenga and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gospel scholarship has long recognized that Matthean Christology is a rich, multifaceted tapestry weaving multifold Old Testment figures together in the person of Jesus. It is somewhat strange, therefore, that scholarship has found little role for the figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew. Employing Umberto Eco's theory of the Model Reader as a theoretical basis to ground the phenomenon of Matthean intertextuality, this work contends that when read rightly as a coherent narrative in its first-century setting, with proper attention to both biblical texts and extrabiblical traditions about Isaac, the Gospel of Matthew evinces a significant Isaac typology in service of presenting Jesus as new temple and decisive sacrifice.

Review of Biblical Literature, 2021

Author : Alicia J. Batten
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884145530
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Review of Biblical Literature, 2021 by : Alicia J. Batten

Download or read book Review of Biblical Literature, 2021 written by Alicia J. Batten and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual Review of Biblical Literature presents a selection of reviews of the most recent books in biblical studies and related fields, including topical monographs, multi-author volumes, reference works, commentaries, and dictionaries. RBL reviews German, French, Italian, and English books and offers reviews in those languages.

The Unbinding

Author : Wendy Vergoz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532683952
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Unbinding by : Wendy Vergoz

Download or read book The Unbinding written by Wendy Vergoz and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unbinding chronicles a woman’s experience of finding her way through and out of a twenty-year marriage rooted in domestic violence, as well as her continued unbinding from trauma. The abuse she survives is particularly insidious due to the fact that she is married to a pastor, and thus it includes not just emotional, psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, but also spiritual abuse. Settings and images of everyday life provide a gateway into a remarkable journey, the telling of which is vivid and dark, yet ultimately hopeful. The woman at the center of this journey survives due to her children—a manifestation to her of grace in the world—and her grit.

A Practical Discipleship Model That Fosters Spiritual Maturity

Author : Owar Ojha Ojulu
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666783781
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Practical Discipleship Model That Fosters Spiritual Maturity by : Owar Ojha Ojulu

Download or read book A Practical Discipleship Model That Fosters Spiritual Maturity written by Owar Ojha Ojulu and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus challenges us to live in him and continue living out the truth so that we claim our allegiance to Christ and live as disciples free from fear and from cultural customs that contradict the gospel message. This project has found that the lack of discipleship training among the Anyuwaa churches has resulted in a lack of understanding of what this ministry entails—teaching and making disciples. In addition, failure to embed elements of the Anyuwaa culture into the discipleship approach, and the persistence of certain elements of Anyuwaa life that run counter to gospel beliefs, has inflamed this crisis. Therefore, this book presents a call for the church to challenge the culture of syncretism and the fear of witchdoctors, to shift its paradigm and begin interpreting the gospel message, utilizing contextual elements but interpreting them through the lens of the gospel, calling people to embrace gospel values within their own cultural context. When we start interpreting strong cultural beliefs and traditions through the truth of the gospel, it is proof that we have come to the best discipleship approach, as we speak the truth of the gospel in the life our church and the hearts of our believers.

A Heart of Flesh

Author : Steven E. Knepper
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166679919X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Heart of Flesh by : Steven E. Knepper

Download or read book A Heart of Flesh written by Steven E. Knepper and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish philosopher William Desmond is one of the most compelling and adventurous Christian thinkers of our time. The essays gathered here undertake a journey through the Bible with Desmond that ranges across biblical theology, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, political theory, and literary studies. Some of the essays examine the place of the Bible in Desmond's thought, considering his readings of the creation, the Abraham cycle, and the Beatitudes. Other essays bring Desmond's ideas to bear on broad questions that emerge from the Bible about philosophy and revelation, exegesis, theopoetics, eschatology, and tyranny. Still others bring Desmond into conversation with influential philosophers who engage (or conspicuously do not engage) the Bible, such as Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Tillich. Together, these essays show the rich possibilities of approaching the Bible with Desmond. All take their bearings from Desmond's "metaxological" approach, which does not seek to claim the final word, which attends to the text rather than simply imposing on it, and which allows for an ongoing dialogue. / Contributors: Ryan G. Duns, SJ / Caitlin Smith Gilson / Joseph K. Gordon / William Christian Hackett / Steven E. Knepper / Renee Kohler-Ryan / Andrew Kuiper / Brendan Thomas Sammon / Terence Sweeney / Ethan Vanderleek / Erik van Versendaal / Robert Wyllie

Rav Kook

Author : Yehudah Mirsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300164246
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rav Kook by : Yehudah Mirsky

Download or read book Rav Kook written by Yehudah Mirsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel’s religious and political life /div

In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827618255
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile by : Abraham Joshua Heschel

Download or read book In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile written by Abraham Joshua Heschel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Hour offers the first English translations of selected German writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel from his tumultuous years in Nazi-ruled Germany and months in London exile, before he found refuge in the United States. Moreover, several of the works have never been published in any language. Composed during a time of intense crisis for European Jewry, these writings both argue for and exemplify a powerful vision of spiritually rich Jewish learning and its redemptive role in the past and the future of the Jewish people. The collection opens with the text of a speech in which Heschel laid out with passion his vision for Jewish education. Then it goes on to present his teachings: a set of essays about the rabbis of the Mishnaic period, whose struggles paralleled those of his own time; the biography of the medieval Jewish scholar and leader Don Yitzhak Abravanel; reflections on the power and meaning of repentance, written for the High Holidays in 1936; and a short story on Jewish exile, written for Hanukkah 1937. The collection closes with a set of four recently discovered meditations—on suffering, prayer, spirituality, and God—in which Heschel grapples with the horrors unfolding around him. Taken together, these essays and story fill a significant void in Heschel’s bibliography: his Nazi Germany and London exile years. These translations convey the spare elegance of Heschel’s prose, and the introduction and detailed notes make the volume accessible to readers of all knowledge levels. As Heschel teaches history, his voice is more than that of a historian: the old becomes new, and the struggles of one era shed light on another. Even as Heschel quotes ancient sources, his words address the issues of his own time and speak urgently to ours.

CCAR JOURNAL - SPRING 2022

Author : Elaine Rose Glickman
Publisher : CCAR Press
ISBN 13 : 0881236187
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis CCAR JOURNAL - SPRING 2022 by : Elaine Rose Glickman

Download or read book CCAR JOURNAL - SPRING 2022 written by Elaine Rose Glickman and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Conference of American Rabbis Spring 2022 Journal Published by CCAR Press, a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son

Author : Maria E. Doerfler
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520304152
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son by : Maria E. Doerfler

Download or read book Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son written by Maria E. Doerfler and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late antiquity was a perilous time for children, who were often the first victims of economic crisis, war, and disease. They had a one in three chance of dying before their first birthday, with as many as half dying before age ten. Christian writers accordingly sought to speak to the experience of bereavement and to provide cultural scripts for parents who had lost a child. These late ancient writers turned to characters like Eve and Sarah, Job and Jephthah as models for grieving and for confronting or submitting to the divine. Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah’s Son traces the stories these writers crafted and the ways in which they shaped the lived experience of familial bereavement in ancient Christianity. A compelling social history that conveys the emotional lives of people in the late ancient world, Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah's Son is a powerful portrait of mourning that extends beyond antiquity to the present day.

Sarah's Choice

Author : Eleanor Wilner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226900285
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sarah's Choice by : Eleanor Wilner

Download or read book Sarah's Choice written by Eleanor Wilner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, her third collection of poems, Eleanor Wilner revises a number of our culture's central myths; invoking figures as diverse as Briar Rose and Miriam the Prophet, she casts upon their stories, and choices, an enlivening feminist perspective. "There is so much that is impressive in Wilner's mature poems. In an era which has been labelled 'The End of History,' she examines history's less obvious lessons. If the past is to teach us, she seems to say, then we must re-invent and re-shape it."—Poetry