Persons and Other Things : : Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible /

Persons and Other Things : : Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible / / Mark Glouberman.

The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God’s name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spell...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Glouberman, Mark ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Preamble: … with a loosened tie
  • PRINCIPLES
  • 1 Bibleism and Judaism: Four and a Half Dogmas of Bible Interpretation
  • 2 Godless the Bible’s Philosophy Isn’t
  • 3 “Jew” as a Category Label: Philosophy on the Holocaust
  • 4 Hero, Israel: Troy and the Torah
  • PASSAGES
  • 5 “On one leg”: The Stability of Monotheism
  • 6 “Where were you?”: The Logic of the Book of Job
  • 7 “Let them have dominion”: The Bible and the Natural World
  • 8 “Because … God rested”: Philosophy on the Sabbath Day
  • 9 “In the day that you shall eat”: Do and Die
  • PEOPLE
  • 10 Eat, Pray, Smoke: Halakhah for Everyone
  • 11 God Loves You, Christopher Hitchens
  • 12 Jerry and Jewry: Ethnicity and Humanity in G.A. Cohen
  • 13 “O God, O Montreal!”: Charles Taylor and Turbocharged Humanism
  • 14 A Plea for Ontology: Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos
  • 15 Phenomenology and Analysis: A Bridge over the Waters
  • Epilogue: The Acts of the Philosophers
  • Finale: “The rest is the commentary thereof ”
  • Notes
  • Notes
  • Index

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