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Author : Admiel Kosman
Release : 2012
Genre : Jewish philosophy
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Book Synopsis Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism ; Translated Translated from Hebrew by Edward Levin by : Admiel Kosman
Download or read book Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism ; Translated Translated from Hebrew by Edward Levin written by Admiel Kosman. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Admiel Kosman
Release : 2012-10-30
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism by : Admiel Kosman
Download or read book Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism written by Admiel Kosman. This book was released on 2012-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author applies the fields of gender studies, psychoanalysis, and literature to Talmudic texts. In opposition to the perception of Judaism as a legal system, he argues that the Talmud demands inner spiritual effort, to which the trait of humility and the refinement of the ego are central. This leads to the question of the attitude to the Other, in general, and especially to women. The author shows that the Talmud places the woman (who represents humility and good-heartedness in the Talmudic narratives) above the character of the male depicted in these narratives as a scholar with an inflated sense of self-importance. In the last chapter (that in terms of its scope and content could be a freestanding monograph) the author employs the insights that emerged from the preceding chapters to present a new reading of the Creation narrative in the Bible and the Rabbinic commentaries. The divine act of creation is presented as a primal sexual act, a sort of dialogic model of the consummate sanctity that takes its place in man’s spiritual life when the option of opening one’s heart to the other in a male-female dialogue is realized.
Author : Reuven Kiperwasser
Release : 2021-11-05
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 909/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Going West by : Reuven Kiperwasser
Download or read book Going West written by Reuven Kiperwasser. This book was released on 2021-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book by Reuven Kiperwasser examines the social, cultural, and religious aspects of third- to sixth-century narratives involving rabbinic figures migrating between Babylonia and Palestine. Kiperwasser draws on migration and mobility studies, comparative literature, humor and satire studies, as well as social history to reveal how border-crossing rabbis were seen as exporting features of their previous eastern context into their new western homes and vice versa. Through their writing, rabbinic authors articulated the nature and legitimacy of their own scholastic practices, knowledge, and authority in relationship to their internal others.
Author : Constanza Cordoni
Release : 2016-06-20
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 284/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis "Let the Wise Listen and add to Their Learning" (Prov 1:5) by : Constanza Cordoni
Download or read book "Let the Wise Listen and add to Their Learning" (Prov 1:5) written by Constanza Cordoni. This book was released on 2016-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift honours Günter Stemberger on the occasion of his 75th birthday on 7 December 2015 and contains 41 articles from colleagues and students. The studies focus on a variety of subjects pertaining to the history, religion and culture of Judaism – and, to a lesser extent, of Christianity – from late antiquity and the Middle Ages to the modern era.
Author : Alexander Samely
Release : 2013-11-07
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 296/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Profiling Jewish Literature in Antiquity by : Alexander Samely
Download or read book Profiling Jewish Literature in Antiquity written by Alexander Samely. This book was released on 2013-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new system for describing non-biblical ancient Jewish literature. It arises from a fresh empirical investigation into the literary structures of many anonymous and pseudepigraphic sources, including Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha of the Old Testament, the larger Dead Sea Scrolls, Midrash, and the Talmuds. A comprehensive framework of several hundred literary features, based on modern literary studies and text linguistics, allows describing the variety of important text types which characterize ancient Judaism without recourse to vague and superficial genre terms. The features proposed cover all aspects of the ancient Jewish texts, including the self-presentation, perspective, and knowledge horizon assumed by the text; any poetic constitution, narration, thematic discourse, or commentary format; common small forms and small-scale relationships governing neighbouring parts; compilations; dominant subject matter; and similarities to the canonical books of the Hebrew Bible. By treating works of diverse genres and periods by the same conceptual grid, the new framework breaks down artificial barriers to interdisciplinary research and prepares the ground for new large-scale comparative studies. The book introduces and presents the new framework, explains and illustrates every descriptive category with reference to specific ancient Jewish texts, and provides sample profiles of Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, Mishnah, and Genesis Rabbah. The books publication is accompanied by a public online Database of hundreds of further Profiles (literarydatabase.humanities.manchester.ac.uk). This project was made possible through the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
