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Author | : Adam Zachary Newton |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0823273318 |
How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read? For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein “ethics” becomes a matter of tact—in the doubled sense of touch and regard. With the image of the book lying in the hands of its readers as insistent refrain, To Make the Hands Impure cuts a provocative cross-disciplinary swath through classical Jewish texts, modern Jewish philosophy, film and performance, literature, translation, and the material text. Newton explores the ethics of reading through a range of texts, from the Talmud and Midrash to Conrad’s Nostromo and Pascal’s Le Mémorial, from works by Henry Darger and Martin Scorsese to the National September 11 Memorial and a synagogue in Havana, Cuba. In separate chapters, he conducts masterly treatments of Emmanuel Levinas, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stanley Cavell by emphasizing their performances as readers—a trebled orientation to Talmud, novel, and theater/film. To Make the Hands Impure stages the encounter of literary experience and scriptural traditions—the difficult and the holy—through an ambitious, singular, and innovative approach marked in equal measure by erudition and imaginative daring.
Author | : Jonathan Klawans |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0195177657 |
Jonathan Klawans shows how the link between moral impurity and physical defilement, as understood by the ancient Hebrews, can be followed through to St Paul and the Christian era when the need for ritual purity was finally rejected.
Author | : Jodi Magness |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2011-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802865585 |
The intersection of archaeology and text in the late Second Temple period -- 2. Purifying the body and hands -- 3. Creeping and swarming creatures, locusts, fish, dogs, chickens, and pigs -- 4. Household vessels: pottery, oil lamps, glass, stone, and dung -- 5. Dining customs and communal meals -- 6. Sabbath observance and fasting -- 7. Coins -- 8. Clothing and tzitzit -- 9. Oil and spit -- 10. Toilets and toilet habits -- 11. Tombs and burial customs -- 12. Epilogue: the aftermath of 70.
Author | : Anders Runesson |
Publisher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2020-07-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0884144445 |
In this collection of essays, leading New Testament scholars reassess the reciprocal relationship between Matthew and Second Temple Judaism. Some contributions focus on the relationship of the Matthean Jesus to torah, temple, and synagogue, while others explore theological issues of Jewish and gentile ethnicity and universalism within and behind the text.
Author | : James G. Crossley |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
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Looking beyond theological narratives and offering a sociological, economic, and historical examination of the spread of earliest Christianity, James Crossley presents a thoroughly secular and causal explanation for why the once law-observant movement within Judaism became the beginnings of a new religion. First analyzing the historiography of the New Testament and stressing the problematic omission of a social scientific account, Crossley applies a socioeconomic lens to the rise of the Jesus movement and the centrality of sinners to his mission. Using macrosociological approaches, he explains how Jesus' Jewish teachings sparked the shift toward a gentile religion and an international monotheistic trend. Finally, using approaches from conversion studies, he provides a sociohistorical explanation for the rise of the Pauline mission.
Author | : David J. Fekete |
Publisher | : Algora Publishing |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0875862446 |
Love between a man and a woman: is it sacred or sinful? A Rhapsody of Love and Spirituality explores Platonic eros, Christian mysticism, friendship, religious ritual, and love as people experience it, turning up startling ironies and paradoxes and, along the way, some traditions we may find worth reclaiming.
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Total Pages | : 868 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Herbert A. Davidson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 019517321X |
Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial new biography, the work of many years, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson expounds all of his voluminous writings in exhaustive detail, with separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. This long-awaited volume is destined to become the standard work on this towering figure of Western intellectual history.
Author | : Samuel ANNESLEY (LL.D., Minister of St. Giles', Cripplegate.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1844 |
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Author | : Priests for Equality (Organization) |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9781580512138 |
While this new Bible is certainly an inclusive-language translation, it is much more: it is a re-imagining of the scriptures and our relationship to them. Not merely replacing male pronouns, the translators have rethought what kind of language has built barriers between the text and its readers. Seeking to be faithful to the original languages, they have sought new and non-sexist ways to express the same ancient truths. The Inclusive Bible is a fresh, dynamic translation into modern English, carefully crafted to let the power and poetry of the language shine forth--particularly when read aloud--giving it an immediacy and intimacy rarely found in traditional translations of the Bible. The Inclusive Bible contains both the Old and the New Testaments.