Isbn: 9781934843413 - vixens disturbing vineyards: embarrassment and embracement of scriptures―a festschrift honoring harry fox (lebeit yoreh) (judaism and jewish life) (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. Addresses the concept of Jewish peoplehood since the initial attempts of early 20th century Jewish intellectuals Mordechai Kaplan and Salo Baron. This work offers both intellectual and practical frameworks for grappling with the policy outcomes of different understandings of the peoplehood concept. Editor(s): Yoreh, Tzemah; Glazer, Aubrey; Lewis, Justin Jaron. Series: Judaism and Jewish Life. Num Pages: 720 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJT; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 169 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1146. . 2010. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every reading community has ways of confronting moments of embarrassmentin its reading of scriptures. Scripture may be the holy books of religiouscommunities or the foundational texts of civilizations. Contemporary readersof Aristotle who see his writing as foundational for Western philosophy,for example, must confront his views on slavery. This kind of confrontation, whether with religious, philosophical or canonical books of other kinds, may lead readers to reject scripture's claims-or it may motivate them to re-read or misread scripture so as to eliminate, ameliorate or apologize for the problematic passages. Once this misprision has taken place, the formerly ofending scriptures may be re-embraced. A community may also re-embrace scripture by rejecting traditional readings in favor of more originary readings.By entering into that very tension between what Harry Fox calls embarrassmentand embracement, the reader experiences the anxiety of a narrative'spower over a community. That anxiety is most palpable in the ideologicaland theological applications of these foundational works. Applications ofscriptures have included the exploitation of natural resources and their preservation; genocide and ethnic cleansing as well as the promotion of humanrights; slavery and its abolition; homophobia and the acceptance of sexualvariation.The essays in this volume honor Professor Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh). Writtenin a variety of disciplines, they rethink canonical texts through Fox's rubric,contributing to our understanding of historical and textual moments of embarrassment and embracement. Contributors include Yaakov Elman, PaulHeger, Tirzah Meacham, Yosef Tubi and the late Chana Safrai as well as manystudents, colleagues and friends of Professor Fox.…

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