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Author | : Dov Weiss |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 081224835X |
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Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss has written the first scholarly study of the premodern roots of this distinctively Jewish theology of protest, examining its origins and development in the rabbinic age (70 CE-800 CE).
Author | : Scott A. Davison |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2022-05-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3030953734 |
Download The Protests of Job Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the protests of Job from the perspectives of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religious and philosophical traditions. Shira Weiss examines how challenges to divine justice are understood from a Jewish theological perspective, including the pro-protest and anti-protest traditions within rabbinic literature, in an effort to explicate the ambiguous biblical text and Judaism’s attitude towards the suffering of the righteous. Scott Davison surveys Christian interpretations of the book of Job and the nature of suffering in general before turning to a comparison of the lamentations of Jesus and Job, with special attention to the question of whether complaints against God can be expressions of faith. Sajjad Rizvi presents the systematic ambiguity of being present in monistic approaches to reality as one response to evil and suffering in Islam, along with approaches that attempt a resolution through the essential erotic nature of the cosmos, and explores the suggestion that Job is the hero of a metaphysical revolt that is the true sign of a friend of God. Each author also provides a response essay to the essays of the other two authors, creating an interfaith dialogue around the problem of evil and the idea of protest against the divine.
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Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Preaching |
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Author | : Robert Eisen |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2023-06-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1487548249 |
Download Jews, Judaism, and Success Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern Western world? Eisen argues that Jews achieved such success because they were unusually well-prepared for it by their religion – in particular, Rabbinic Judaism, or the Judaism of the rabbis. Rooted in the Talmud, this form of Judaism instilled in Jews key values that paved the way for success in modern Western society: autonomy, freedom of thought, worldliness, and education. The book carefully analyses the evolution of these four values over the past two thousand years in order to demonstrate that they had a longer and richer history in Jewish culture than in Western culture. The book thus disputes the common assumption that Rabbinic Judaism was always an obstacle to Jews becoming modernized. It demonstrates that while modern Jews rejected aspects of Rabbinic Judaism, they also retained some of its values, and these values in particular led to Jewish success. Written for a broad range of readers, Jews, Judaism, and Success provides unique insights on the meaning of success and how it is achieved in the modern world.
Author | : David H. Aaron |
Publisher | : Hebrew Union College Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2018-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0878201912 |
Download Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 88 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.
Author | : Elana Stein Hain |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2024-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1512824410 |
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Circumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. The logic of ha’aramah, a subset of rabbinic legal circumventions mostly defined as a tool for private life, underpins both well-known circumventions, such as selling leaven before Passover, and lesser-known mechanisms, such as designating an animal intended for sacrifice “blemished” before birth to allow it to be slaughtered for food instead. Elana Stein Hain traces the development of these loopholes over time, revealing that rabbinic literature does not consistently accept or reject loopholes. Instead, rabbinic Judaism applies categories of evasion (prohibited), avoidance (permitted), and avoision (contested) to loopholes on a case-by-case basis. The intended outcome of a given loophole determines its classification, as does the legal integrity of the circumventive process in question. Yet these understandings of loopholes are not static—instead, rabbinic attitudes toward loopholing change over time. Early works display an objective, performative understanding of the self and of intention, but evolve over time to reflect more subjective and intimate understanding of the self and intention. This evolution redefines what legal integrity means in Jewish legal philosophy. Circumventing the Law brings readers through the Second Temple period to the modern era to see how loopholing has evolved over millennia. With a focus on late antiquity, Stein Hain explores tannaitic literature, the Palestinian Talmud, and contemporaneous Greco-Roman and Persian thought to show that when warranted, Jewish rhetoric and philosophy around understandings of loopholes was a unique phenomenon that relied on changes in understanding the definition of integrity itself, a key finding for scholars of Jewish Studies and of religious and of secular law writ large.
Author | : Timothy J. Sandoval |
Publisher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2022-10-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1628374500 |
Download Gerhard von Rad and the Study of Wisdom Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gerhard von Rad's study of biblical wisdom literature in Weisheit in Israel (1970) is widely regarded as one of the most important studies in the field of ancient Israelite wisdom literature. More than fifty years later, contributors to Gerhard von Rad and the Study of Wisdom Literature reevaluate the significance and shortcomings of the late scholar's work and engage new methods and directions for wisdom studies today. Contributors include George J. Brooke, Ariel Feldman, Edward L. Greenstein, Arthur Jan Keefer, Jennifer L. Koosed, Will Kynes, Christl M. Maier, Timothy J. Sandoval, Bernd U. Schipper, Mark Sneed, Hermann Spieckermann, Anne W. Stewart, Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, Stuart Weeks, and Benjamin G. Wright III. This collection of essays is essential reading not only for specialists in wisdom studies but also for scholars and advanced students of the Hebrew Bible in general.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2023-11-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004680047 |
Download The Power of Parables Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their audience, which has since been reduced by centuries of preaching and repetition. Not only do parables enhance the perspective on Scripture or the kingdom of heaven, they also change the sensory regime of the audience in perceiving the outer world. The theological differences in their applications appear secondary in view of their powerful rhetoric and suggest a shared genre.
Author | : Matthew S. Goldstone |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004376550 |
Download The Dangerous Duty of Rebuke: Leviticus 19:17 in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Dangerous Duty of Rebuke Matthew Goldstone explores the ways religious leaders in early Jewish and Christian communities conceived of the obligation to rebuke based upon the biblical verse: “Rebuke your fellow but do not incur sin” (Leviticus 19:17).
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2022-07-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004515690 |
Download The Literature of the Sages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume abandons the document-based approach of standard introductions and investigates aggregates of classical rabbinic texts through three broad perspectives – intertextuality, east and west, halakhah and aggadah – generating fresh insights that will reset the scholarly agenda.