Nine Talmudic Readings

Author : Emmanuel Levinas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253040527

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Nine Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel Levinas Pdf

Nine rich and masterful readings of the Talmud by the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas translate Jewish thought into the language of modern times. Between 1963 and 1975, Levinas delivered these commentaries at the annual Talmudic colloquia of a group of French Jewish intellectuals in Paris. In this collection, Levinas applies a hermeneutic that simultaneously allows the classic Jewish texts to shed light on contemporary problems and lets modern problems illuminate the texts. Besides being quintessential illustrations of the art of reading, the essays express the deeply ethical vision of the human condition that makes Levinas one of the most important thinkers of our time.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015042989494

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New Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

This volume contains three of Emmanuel Levinas's last major lectures on the Talmud. Originally compiled and published in French in 1996, it includes the lectures, The Will of Heaven and the Power of Humanity, Beyond the State in the Self, and Who is One-self?. Levinas's Talmudic commentaries have generated interest in both theological and philosophical circles. These exegetical writings bear on his ever-present concern with ethics, the central focus of his philosophy. One of the most remarkable consequences of this focus, furthermore, is a renewal of philosophy's capacity to both respect and uncover the deepest meanings central to sacred as well as secular texts.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032192026

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Beyond the Verse by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

An important collection of essays dating from between 1969 and 1980, treating specific Jewish problems: exegetic methodology, points of Jewish doctrine, Jewish religious philosophy, and contemporary political and cultural issues. It also includes five Talmudic readings. This work will be of wide interest to the philosophical and religious communities at large.

Author : Annette Aronowicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Ideology
ISBN : OCLC:9626782

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Freedom from Ideology by Annette Aronowicz Pdf

Author : Ben Zion Bokser,Baruch M. Bokser
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809131145

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The Talmud by Ben Zion Bokser,Baruch M. Bokser Pdf

This volume sheds light on the early rabbis as the shapers of religion and uncovers for the modern reader the early Sages' fundamental beliefs concerning God, the world and the human condition.

Author : Marilyn Hirsh
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761455868

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The Rabbi and the Twenty-nine Witches by Marilyn Hirsh Pdf

A rabbi finally rids his village of witches

Author : Ethan Kleinberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781503629608

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Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn by Ethan Kleinberg Pdf

In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons. Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents between "God on Our Side" and "God on God's Side" to provide two discrete and at times conflicting approaches to Levinas's Talmudic readings. One is historically situated and argued from "our side" while the other uses Levinas's Talmudic readings themselves to approach the issues as timeless and derived from "God on God's own side." Bringing the two approaches together, Kleinberg asks whether the ethical message and moral urgency of Levinas's Talmudic lectures can be extended beyond the texts and beliefs of a chosen people, religion, or even the seemingly primary unit of the self. Touching on Western philosophy, French Enlightenment universalism, and the Lithuanian Talmudic tradition, Kleinberg provides readers with a boundary-pushing investigation into the origins, influences, and causes of Levinas's turn to and use of Talmud.

Author : Mira Beth Wasserman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812294088

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Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals by Mira Beth Wasserman Pdf

In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals, Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara, arguably the Talmud's most scandalous tractate, to uncover the hidden architecture of this classic work of Jewish religious thought. She proposes a new way of reading the Talmud that brings it into conversation with the humanities, including animal studies, the new materialisms, and other areas of critical theory that have been reshaping the understanding of what it is to be a human being. Even as it comments on the the rabbinic laws that govern relations between Jews and non-Jews, Avoda Zara is also an attempt to reflect on what all people share in common, and on how humans fit into a larger universe of animals and things. As is typical of the Talmud in general, it proceeds by incorporating a vast and confusing array of apparently digressive materials, but Wasserman demonstrates that there is a whole greater than the sum of the parts, a sustained effort to explore human identity and difference. In centuries past, Avoda Zara has been a flashpoint in Jewish-Christian relations. It was partly due to its content that the Talmud was subject to burning and censorship by Christian authorities. Wasserman develops a twenty-first-century reading of the tractate that aims to reposition it as part of a broader quest to understand what connects human beings to each other and to the world around them.

Author : Chaim N. Saiman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691210858

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Halakhah by Chaim N. Saiman Pdf

How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everything Typically translated as "Jewish law," halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law. This is because the rabbinic legal system has rarely wielded the political power to enforce its rules, nor has it ever been the law of any state. Even more idiosyncratically, the talmudic rabbis claim the study of halakhah is a holy endeavor that brings a person closer to God—a claim no country makes of its law. Chaim Saiman traces how generations of rabbis have used concepts forged in talmudic disputation to do the work that other societies assign not only to philosophy, political theory, theology, and ethics but also to art, drama, and literature. Guiding readers across two millennia of richly illuminating perspectives, this panoramic book shows how halakhah is not just "law" but an entire way of thinking, being, and knowing.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804736669

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God, Death, and Time by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses on ethical relation Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne. In seeking to explain his thought to students, he utilizes a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his other writings.

Author : Lynn Kaye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108423236

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Time in the Babylonian Talmud by Lynn Kaye Pdf

Time in the Babylonian Talmud explores how rabbinic jurists' language, reasoning, and storytelling reveal their assumptions about what we call time.

Author : Moulie Vidas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691170862

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Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud by Moulie Vidas Pdf

Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas argues on the contrary that structural features of the Talmud were designed to produce a discontinuity with tradition, and that this discontinuity was part and parcel of the rabbis' self-conception. Both this self-conception and these structural features were part of a debate within and beyond the Jewish community about the transmission of tradition. Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud, produced in the rabbinic academies of late ancient Mesopotamia, Vidas analyzes key passages to show how the Talmud's creators contrasted their own voice with that of their predecessors. He also examines Zoroastrian, Christian, and mystical Jewish sources to reconstruct the debates and wide-ranging conversations that shaped the Talmud's literary and intellectual character.

Author : Katell Berthelot,Joseph E. David,Marc Hirshman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199959815

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The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought by Katell Berthelot,Joseph E. David,Marc Hirshman Pdf

This volume of essays presents a compelling and comprehensive analysis of the intriguing issue of the gift of the land of Israel and the fate of the Canaanites as presented in diverse biblical sources. Jewish thought has long grappled with the moral and theological implications and challenges of this issue. Innovative interpretive strategies and philosophical reflections were offered, modified, and sometimes rejected over the centuries. Leading contemporary scholars follow these threads of interpretation offered by Jewish thinkersfrom antiquity to modern times.

Author : Ira F. Stone
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827606067

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Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud by Ira F. Stone Pdf

Although Jewish scholars have recognized the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas as one of the greatest minds of this century, the majority of Jews have remained ignorant of his teachings, largely because his work-even in translation-is dense and erudite. Rabbi Ira Stone, who has studied Levinas's work for many years and incorporated his methods and perspectives into his own teaching, now makes Levinas accessible to lay readers for the first time.

Author : Paul Socken
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0739142003

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Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-first Century? by Paul Socken Pdf

The Talmud is the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. It is a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, of anecdotes and humor. Unfortunately, its sometimes complex subject matter often seems irrelevant in today's world. In this edited volume, sixteen eminent North American and Israeli scholars from several schools of Jewish thought grapple with the text and tradition of Talmud, talking personally about their own reasons for studying it. Each of these scholars and teachers believes that Talmud is indispensible to any serious study of modern Judaism and so each essay challenges the reader to engage in his or her own individual journey of discovery. The diverse feminist, rabbinic, educational, and philosophical approaches in this collection are as varied as the contributors' experiences. Their essays are accessible, personal accounts of their individual discovery of the Talmud, reflecting the vitality and profundity of modern religious thought and experience.