The Hebrew Bible And Philosophy Of Religion

Author : Jaco Gericke
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589837089

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The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion by Jaco Gericke Pdf

This study pioneers the use of philosophy of religion in the study of the Hebrew Bible. After identifying the need for a legitimate philosophical approach to Israelite religion, the volume traces the history of interdisciplinary relations and shows how descriptive varieties of philosophy of religion can aid the clarification of the Hebrew Bible’s own metaphysical, epistemological, and moral assumptions. Two new interpretative methodologies are developed and subsequently applied through an introduction to what the biblical texts took for granted about the nature of religious language, the concept of deity, the properties of Yhwh, the existence of gods, religious epistemology, and the relation between religion and morality.

Author : Mark Glouberman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781487539450

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Persons and Other Things by Mark Glouberman Pdf

The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God’s name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications of the Bible’s core anthropological teachings. In Persons and Other Things Mark Glouberman explores the Bible’s philosophy, roughing out in the course of a defence of it how men and women who see themselves in the biblical portrayal (as he argues that most of us do once the "religious" glare is reduced) are committed to conduct their personal affairs, arrange their social ties, and act in the natural world. Persons and Other Things is also the author’s testament about the practice of philosophy. Glouberman sets out the lessons he has acquired as a lifelong learner about thinking philosophically, about writing philosophy, and about philosophers.

Author : M. Glouberman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 1487539444

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Persons and Other Things by M. Glouberman Pdf

"The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God's name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications of the Bible's core anthropological teachings. In Persons and Other Things Mark Glouberman explores the Bible's philosophy, roughing out in the course of a defence of it how men and women who see themselves in the biblical portrayal (as he argues that most of us do once the "religious" glare is reduced) are committed to conduct their personal affairs, arrange their social ties, and act in the natural world. Persons and Other Things is also the author's testament about the practice of philosophy. Glouberman sets out, and in the chapters that pursue the theme he puts into practice, the lessons he has acquired as a lifelong learner about thinking philosophically, about writing philosophy, and about philosophers. Persons and Other Things looks closely at the Bible as a philosophical work, asking insightful questions about how to interpret the Hebrew Bible, what it means to be Jewish, and how to live a meaningful and moral life."--

Author : Yoram Hazony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780521176675

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The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture by Yoram Hazony Pdf

This book offers a new framework for reading the Bible as a work of reason.

Author : Yoram Hazony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139536257

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The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture by Yoram Hazony Pdf

What if the Hebrew Bible wasn't meant to be read as 'revelation'? What if it's not really about miracles or the afterlife – but about how to lead our lives in this world? The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture proposes a new framework for reading the Bible. It shows how biblical authors used narrative and prophetic oratory to advance universal arguments about ethics, political philosophy and metaphysics. It offers bold new studies of biblical narratives and prophetic poetry, transforming forever our understanding of what the stories of Abel, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and David and the speeches of Isaiah and Jeremiah, were meant to teach. The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture assumes no belief in God or other religious commitment. It assumes no previous background in Bible. It is free of disciplinary jargon. Open the door to a book you never knew existed. You'll never read the Bible the same way again.

Author : Jaco Gericke,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032175893

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A Philosophical Theology of the Old Testament by Jaco Gericke,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This book sets out an approach to something that has been generally considered impossible: a philosophical theology of the Old Testament. Focusing on the nature of Yahweh in the Old Testament, it argues that there is an implicit underlying philosophical framework to belief in God in the Hebrew Bible which is amenable to analytic treatment.

Author : Yechiel J. M. Leiter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108428187

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John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible by Yechiel J. M. Leiter Pdf

John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?

Author : Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCAL:$B247310

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Genius and Spirit of the Hebrew Bible by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Pdf

Author : Kenneth Seeskin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827612624

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Thinking about the Torah by Kenneth Seeskin Pdf

The Bible is an enduring source of inspiration for the human heart and mind, and readers of Thinking about the Torah will be rewarded with an enhanced understanding of this great work’s deeper meanings. Drawing on Western philosophy and particularly Jewish philosophy, Kenneth Seeskin delves into ten core biblical verses and the powerful ideas that emerge from them. He speaks to readers on every page and invites conversation about topics central to human existence: how finite beings can relate to the infinite, what love is, the role of ethics in religion, and the meaning of holiness. Seeskin raises questions we all ask and responds to them with curiosity and compassion, weaving into his own perceptive commentary insights from great Jewish thinkers such as Maimonides, Spinoza, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas, as well as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Luther, Kant, and Kierkegaard. The Bible is concerned with how we think as well as how we follow the commandments, rituals, and customs. Seeskin inspires us to read the Torah with an open mind and think about the lessons it teaches us.

Author : Robert A. Segal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135610616

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Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Myth by Robert A. Segal Pdf

Much of the theorizing about myth in philosophy and religious studies grows out of efforts to understand the classics and the Bible. In the case of the classics, the presence of myth has been taken for granted, and conclusions reached about Greek and Roman mythology have spurred generalizations about myth. In the case of the Bible, however, the existence of myth has been contested. In fact, Judaism and Christianity are regularly praised for their nonmythic outlook. Conclusions reached about the presence or absence of myth in either the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament have led to generalizations about myth per se. Many of the essays in this volume apply theories of myth to classical, biblical, and ancient Near Eastern cases, but in so doing they draw conclusions about the nature of myth itself. Those essays that criticize past applications make generalizations as weIl. By no means has aIl theorizing about myth from philosophy and religious studies centered on the ancient world, and this volume contains selections from theories in both disciplines that stern from reflections on the nature of science, language, knowledge, and reality.

Author : Jonathan Decter,Arturo Prats
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004232495

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The Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain by Jonathan Decter,Arturo Prats Pdf

The Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain: Exegesis, Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts investigates the relationship between the Bible and the cultural production of Iberian societies between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492. During this turbulent and transformative period, the Bible intersected with virtually all aspects of late medieval Iberian culture: its languages of expression, its material and artistic production, and its intellectual output in literary, philosophical, exegetic, and polemical spheres. The articles in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary volume present instantiations of the Hebrew Bible’s deployment in textual and visual forms on diverse subjects (messianic exegesis, polemics, converso liturgy, Bible translation, conversion narrative, etc.) and utilize a broad range of methodological approaches (from classical philology to Derridian analysis).

Author : Quinn Patrick Quinn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9781474471831

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Philosophy of Religion A-Z by Quinn Patrick Quinn Pdf

A concise alphabetical guide to the philosophical investigation of religion and the meaning of religious beliefs.Philosophy of Religion A-Z provides an overview of the main themes, key figures and issues in the subject. Both topical and historical, it examines key concepts from the Absolute and the Afterlife to World Religions and Yoga as well as thinkers from Abraham to Wittgenstein. The relationship between philosophy and theology is examined as is that between religion, faith and belief. Extensive cross-references demonstrate clear connections between entries.This reference guide will be useful for anyone interested in the philosophy of religion, in philosophy and theology as well as in anthropology, cultural and religious studies, mythology and the psychology and sociology of religion.Features* The alphabetical presentation of the issues and thinkers involved makes for ease of reading.* Philosophers' views on religion are objectively and sympathetically presented as are the various religious creeds discussed.

Author : Franz Rosenzweig
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0815627882

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God, Man, and the World by Franz Rosenzweig Pdf

Translated here for the first time by Barbara E. Galli, these five lectures and writings of Franz Rosenzweig will be welcomed by both the novice and the veteran student of the great philosopher. Based on his lectures at the Jildisches Freies Lehrhaus, the famous Jewish Institute of Adult Education, the essays include notes for a group of lectures of 1920, "Faith and Knowledge," followed by a three-part lecture series of 1922: "The Science of God," "The Science of Man," and the "Science of World." The pieces form a powerful whole. Not only does this book further our understanding of Rosenzweig's daunting work, The Star of Redemption—a seemingly inexhaustible text—but of Rosenzweig's primary principles, that of the irreducibility of God, human being, and world, and of the needfulness of relation and of time for the nourishment of truth and cognition. He expounds on his premise that faith and knowledge are interdependent, and that knowledge is derivative of faith.

Author : Jaco Gericke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567671707

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What is a God? by Jaco Gericke Pdf

In this book Jaco Gericke is concerned with different ways of approaching the question of what, according to the Hebrew Bible, a god was assumed to be. As a supplement to the tradition of predominantly linguistic, historical, literary, comparative, social-scientific and related ways of looking at the research problem, Gericke offers a variety of experimental philosophical perspectives that aim to take a step back from the scholarly discussion as it has unfolded hitherto in order to provide a new type of worry when looking at the riddle of what the biblical texts assumed made a god divine. Consisting of a brief history of philosophical interpretations of the concepts of whatness and essence from Socrates to Derrida, the relevant ideas are adapted and reapplied to look at some interesting metaphysical oddities arising from generic uses of elohim/el/eloah as common noun in the Hebrew Bible. As such the study seeks to be a prolegomenon to all future research in that, instead of answering the question regarding a supposed nature of divinity, it aims to complicate it beyond expectation. In this way a case is made for a more nuanced and indeterminate manner of constructing the problem of what it meant to call something a god.

Author : James A. Diamond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192528254

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Jewish Theology Unbound by James A. Diamond Pdf

Jewish Theology Unbound challenges the widespread misinterpretation of Judaism as a religion of law as opposed to theology. James A. Diamond provides close readings of the Bible, classical rabbinic texts, Jewish philosophers, and mystics from the ancient, medieval, and modern period, which communicate a profound Jewish philosophical theology on human nature, God, and the relationship between the two. The study begins with an examination of questioning in the Hebrew Bible, demonstrating that what the Bible encourages is independent philosophical inquiry into how to situate oneself in the world ethically, spiritually, and teleologically. It explores such themes as the nature of God through the various names by which God is known in the Jewish intellectual tradition, love of others and of God, death, martyrdom, freedom, angels, the philosophical quest, the Holocaust, and the state of Israel, all in light of the Hebrew Bible and the way it is filtered through the rabbinic, philosophical, and mystical traditions.