The value of the particular : lessons from Judaism and the modern Jewish experience : festschrift for Steven T. Katz on the occasion of his seventieth birthday / / edited by Michael Zank and Ingrid Anderson ; with the editorial assistance of Sarah Leventer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460604403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-04-29269-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 379 pages)
• Collana: Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, , 1873-9008 ; ; Volume 25
• Disciplina: 181/.06
• Soggetti: Jewish philosophy - 21st century; Particularism (Theology); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Michael Zank -- Effable Ineffabilities: Steven Katz’s Contribution to the Study of Ineffability Discourse / Timothy Knepper -- Conceptualizations of Tzimtzum in Baroque Italian Kabbalah / Moshe Idel -- Hasidic Derashah as Illuminated Exegesis / Nehemia Polen -- A Matter of Context: Comparing Kabbalah and Neo-Confucianism / Yair Lior -- Spinoza on Love / David Novak -- Mendelssohn and Kant: Ethics and Aesthetics / Leah Hochman -- Martin Buber on Monotheism and Its Discontents / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- The Eros of Ethics: Posthumous Writings of Emmanuel Levinas / Seán Hand -- Hebrew Justice: A Reconstruction for Today / Youde Fu -- Eternal Duration and Temporal Compresence: The Influence of Ḥabad on Joseph B. Soloveitchik / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Martin Buber in America: An Ambivalent Reception / Asher Biemann -- A “Jewish” Joy of Cooking? How a 20th Century Cookbook Containing Frog’s Legs, Snails, and Ham Became a Beloved Jewish Icon / Nora Rubel -- Reenacted Humanism: If This is a Man and Primo Levi’s “New Bible” / Sharon Portnoff -- Theology as Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas as Jewish Post-Holocaust Thinker / Didier Pollefeyt -- Ethics, Meaning, ; and the Absurd in Elie Wiesel’s The Trial of God and Albert Camus’s The Plague / Ingrid Anderson -- The Holocaust: An Indic Perspective / Arvind Sharma -- Steven T. Katz: Selected Publications.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this tribute to Steven T. Katz on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Michael Zank and Ingrid Anderson present sixteen original essays written by senior and junior scholars in comparative religion, philosophy of religion, modern Judaism, and theology after the Holocaust, fields of inquiry where Steven Katz made major contributions over the course of his distinguished scholarly career. The authors of this volume, specialists in Jewish history, especially the modern experience, and Jewish thought from the Bible to Buber, offer theoretical and practical observations on the value of the particular. Contributions range from Tim Knepper’s reevaluation of the ineffability discourse to the particulars of the Settlement Cookbook, examined by Nora Rubel as an American classic.

Nuaulu settlement and ecology : an approach to the environmental relations of an eastern Indonesian community / / Roy F. Ellen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910156502103321
• Autore: Ellen R. F. <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Brill, 1978; The Hague : , : Martinus Nijhoff, , 1978
• ISBN: 90-04-28714-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 265 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; ; 83
• Disciplina: 959.84
• Soggetti: Nuaulu (Indonesian people); Human ecology; Land settlement; Manners and customs; Ceram Island (Indonesia) Social life and customs; Indonesia Ceram Island
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis, London.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-242) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter I. Ecology, generative analysis and settlement patterns -- Chapter II. Nuaulu ethnography and envrionment -- Chapter III. The location and structure of Nuaulu villages -- Chapter IV. Non-domesticated resources and the ecology of settlement -- Chapter V. Sources and social oorganization of cultivated land -- Chapter VI. Site selection and garden preparation -- Chapter VII. Garden development and ecological succession -- Chapter VIII. Analyzing settlement: the wider relevance of the Nuaulu case -- Appendices: A. Local climatic data and Nuaulu ecology -- B. Local minerals and soils -- C. A note on data collection relating to land holdings -- D. Measurement of consumption and energy expenditure.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is about the pattern of settlement and ecology of the Nuaulu, a group of sedentary swidden cultivators and hunters of southcentral Seram (Eastern Indonesia). It has three inter-related aims: to describe and account for nuaulu settlement; to outline and exemplify a suitable method of assessing the fine inter-action of cultural and ecological variables in small scale communities; and to explore the usefulness of a generative form of analysis in this respect. The fieldwork among the Nuaulu was undertaken between December 1969 and May 1971, and again for three months in 1973. After some basic introductory information, the analysis proceeds by first examining the residential component of the settlement patterns in terms of the processes which determine its location, form and composition. Next, the role of non-domesticated resources in local ecology and the processes of settlement generation in the domesticated component of the Nuaulu environment is investigated. In the final section the general theoretical and methodological issues raised in the introduction are examined in the light of the preceeding analysis.