Author: Marvin Alan Sweeney
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Marvin Sweeney finds Holocaust theology an indispensable resource as he examines often ignored biblical texts where ancient Israel contemplated apparent divine absence and "divine evil." In the stories of Abraham, Moses, Esther, Job, kings, prophets, and others, Sweeney discerns the insight "that human beings cannot always depend upon God to act to ensure righteousness in the world." The insistence by Holocaust theologians that human beings are responsible for doing justice in the world is powerfully present already in the Bible itself. Book jacket.
Author: Marvin Alan Sweeney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781451414370
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Author: Emil L. Fackenheim
Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Chs. 1-3 are based on the Sherman Lectures delivered in Manchester, November 1987. Discusses Christian and Jewish readings of the Old Testament after the Holocaust, noting that it is apparently still too early for thinkers of either religion to cope with the subject. Criticizes Christian (especially German) theologians who continue to teach that Israel's "spiritual children" (Christian believers) have replaced the "flesh-and-blood children" (present-day Jewry). Christians reading the Old Testament fear that the Jews may still be the Chosen People; it was this fear that drove the Nazis to exterminate the Jews. After the Holocaust, Jews must question many statements of the Bible: that God never slumbers; that salvation always comes; that the dry bones will rise and live. The dead cannot be replaced, even by the new life in the State of Israel. What has been resurrected perhaps is hope, but a hope infused by doubt. Jews may yet praise divine Goodness, in the hope that in praising they may awaken it from its slumber.
Author: Tod Linafelt
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814751664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Twenty contributions written by university-affiliated scholars of religious studies, philosophy, and other fields address the implications of the Shoah (Holocaust) for interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. Contributors include Richard Rubenstein, Elie Wiesel, and Walter Brueggemann. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Christine Helmer
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN: 158983089X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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More akin to science than to art, biblical interpretation eats its dead--consigning its past heroes to oblivion once new paradigms have passed them by. The history of the field has emerged as a separate discipline, and the question pondered by theologians and philosophers here is whether that history has merit of its own, or serves merely as raw ma
Author: Tod Linafelt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136805222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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The writers of the New Testament were largely Jewish and laying the blame for the Holocaust at their feet would be absurd. However, the later cultural origins of anti-semitism means that reading the New Testament after the event calls for a new ethics of interpretation. These essays address this grave issue in detail,
Author: David Weiss Halivni
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742566145
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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How is it possible, after the Shoah, to declare one's faith in the God of Israel? Breaking the Tablets is David Weiss Halivni's eloquent and insightful response to this question. Halivni, Auschwitz survivor and one of the greatest Talmudic scholars of the past century, declares that at this time of God's near absence, Jews can still observe the words of the Torah and pray for God to come near again. Jews must continue to study the classic texts of rabbinic Judaism but now with greater humility, recognizing that even the greatest religious leaders and thinkers interpret these texts only as mere people, prone to human error. Breaking the Tablets is important reading for anyone who feels burdened by the question of how it is possible to believe in God and practice their religion.
Author: Marvin A. Sweeney
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451414358
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1301
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"Though 'biblical theology' has long been considered a strictly Christian enterprise, Marvin A. Sweeney here proposes a Jewish theology of the Hebrew Bible, based on the importance of Tanak as the foundation of Judaism and organized around the major components: Torah, Nevi'im (Prophets), and Kethuvim (Writings). Sweeney finds the structuring themes of Jewish life: the constitution of the nation Israel in relation to God; the disruption of that ideal, documented by the Prophets; and the reconstitution of the nation around the Second Temple in the Writings. Throughout he is attentive to tensions within and among the texts and the dialogical character of Israel's sacred heritage" -- Publisher description.
Author: Yoram Hazony
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521176670
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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This book offers a new framework for reading the Bible as a work of reason.
Author: Wonil Kim
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781563383267
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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A collection of essays that examines the Hebrew Bible using the methodology of Rolf P. Knierim of the Institute for Antiquity & Christianity in Claremont, CA.
