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Record Nr.

UNINA9910862000003321

Autore

Glouberman Mark

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-4875-3945-2

1-4875-3944-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 pages)

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

221.601

Soggetti

Jewish philosophy

RELIGION / Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Bibleism and Judaism : four and a half dogmas of Bible interpretation -- Godless the Bible's philosophy isn't -- "Jew" as a category label : philosophy on the holocaust -- Hero, Israel : Troy and the Torah -- "On one leg" : the stability of monotheism -- "Where were you?" : the logic of the Book of Job -- "Let them have dominion" : the Bible and the natural world -- "Because ... God rested" : philosophy on the sabbath -- "In the day that you shall eat": do and die -- Eat, pray, smoke : Halakhah for the Goldsteins and the Goyim -- God loves you, Christopher Hitchens -- Jerry and Jewry : ethnicity and humanity in G.A. Cohen -- "O God, O Montreal!": Charles Taylor and turbo-charged humanism -- A plea for ontology : Thomas Nagel's mind and cosmos -- Phenomenology and analysis : a bridge over the saters.

Sommario/riassunto

"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, spells out the practical implications of the Bible's core anthropological teachings. In Persons and Other Things Mark Glouberman explores the Bible's philosophy, roughing out in the course



of a defence of it how men and women who see themselves in the biblical portrayal (as he argues that most of us do once the "religious" glare is reduced) are committed to conduct their personal affairs, arrange their social ties, and act in the natural world. Persons and Other Things is also the author's testament about the practice of philosophy. Glouberman sets out, and in the chapters that pursue the theme he puts into practice, the lessons he has acquired as a lifelong learner about thinking philosophically, about writing philosophy, and about philosophers. Persons and Other Things looks closely at the Bible as a philosophical work, asking insightful questions about how to interpret the Hebrew Bible, what it means to be Jewish, and how to live a meaningful and moral life."--