[PDF] The Talmuds Theological Language Game eBook

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791482014

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In this pioneering effort, noted Jewish philosopher Eugene B. Borowitz opens up the rules by which the language-game of aggadic discourse is carried on in the Talmud, the foundational document of rabbinic and all later Judaism. These findings are compared with the aggadah (the realm in which almost all explicit statements about classic Jewish religious belief occur) of some other early rabbinic writings. Two issues drive Borowitz's inquiry: What, if anything, constrains the unprecedented freedom of this realm? and How might one positively characterize the aggadah? Borowitz introduces us to the rabbis not only in their amazing profundity, but also in their unguarded humanity. He concludes with a reflection on how this old Jewish language-game should influence contemporary Jewish thought, and, perhaps, other religious thought as well.

Author : Elaine Rose Glickman
Publisher : CCAR Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881233870

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Central Conference of American Rabbis Spring 2020 journal.

Author : Hannah Hashkes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004290486

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In Rabbinic Discourse as a System of Knowledge Hannah Hashkes employs contemporary philosophy in describing rabbinic reasoning as a rational response to experience. Hashkes combines insights from the philosophy of Quine and Davidson with the semiotics of Peirce to construe knowledge as systematic reasoning occurring within a community of inquiry. Her reading of the works of Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion allows her to create a philosophical bridge between a discourse of God and a discourse of reason. This synthesis of pragmatism, hermeneutics and theology provides Hashkes with a sophisticated tool to understand Rabbinic Judaism. It also makes this study both unique and pathbreaking in contemporary Jewish philosophy and Rabbinic thought.

Author : Solomon Schechter
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Judaism
ISBN :

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The contents of this book have grown out of a course of lectures delivered at various learned centre, and a series of essays published in the Jewis quarterly review. These essays began to appear in the year 1894.

Author : Wendy I. Zierler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1438466161

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Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience presented by the Jewish Book Council Movies and Midrash uses cinema as a springboard to discuss central Jewish texts and matters of belief. A number of books have drawn on films to explicate Christian theology and belief, but Wendy I. Zierler is the first to do so from a Jewish perspective, exploring what Jewish tradition, text, and theology have to say about the lessons and themes arising from influential and compelling films. The book uses the method of "inverted midrash": while classical rabbinical midrash begins with exegesis of a verse and then introduces a mashal (parable) as a means of further explication, Zierler turns that process around, beginning with the culturally familiar cinematic parable and then analyzing related Jewish texts. Each chapter connects a secular film to a different central theme in classical Jewish sources or modern Jewish thought. Films covered include The Truman Show (truth), Memento (memory), Crimes and Misdemeanors (sin), Magnolia (confession and redemption), The Descendants (birthright), Forrest Gump (cleverness and simplicity), and The Hunger Games (creation of humanity in God's image), among others.

Author : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1107023017

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This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christian monastic texts and Babylonian Talmudic traditions.

Author : Yishai Kiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107155517

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This book explores sex and sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud within the context of competing cultural discourses, for students of comparative religion.