The Invention of Jewish Identity: Bible, Philosophy, and the Art of Translation - Softcover

Hughes, Aaron W.

 
9780253222497: The Invention of Jewish Identity: Bible, Philosophy, and the Art of Translation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253222494 ISBN 13: 9780253222497
Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Jews from all ages have translated the Bible for their particular times and needs, but what does the act of translation mean? Aaron W. Hughes believes translation has profound implications for Jewish identity. The Invention of Jewish Identity presents the first sustained analysis of Bible translation and its impact on Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century. Hughes examines some of the most important Jewish thinkers-Saadya Gaon, Moses ibn Ezra, Maimonides, Judah Messer Leon, Moses Mendelssohn, Martin Buber, and Franz Rosenzweig-and their work on biblical narrative, to understand how linguistic and conceptual idioms change and develop into ideas about the self. The philosophical issues behind Bible translation, according to Hughes, are inseparable from more universal sets of questions that affect Jewish life and learning.

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Aaron W. Hughes is Associate Professor of History and the Gordon and Gretchen Gross Professor in the Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is author of The Texture of the Divine (IUP, 2004) and The Art of Dialogue in Jewish Philosophy (IUP, 2008).

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Verlag
Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0253222494
ISBN 13 
9780253222497
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
202
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