1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798680103321

Titolo

Imagining the Jewish God / / edited by Leonard Kaplan and Ken Koltun-Fromm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-1750-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (575 p.)

Collana

Graven Images

Disciplina

296.3/11

Soggetti

God (Judaism)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Imagining the Jewish God; Part I. PROLOGUE: INSCRIPTION; Chapter One. On the Poetics of the Jewish God; Chapter Two. Seeing Divine Writing: Thoughts on the Drama of the Outside Within the Technology of Inscription; Chapter Three. Questions Posed to Jonathan Boyarin; Part II. OUT OF LEVANT: BIBLICAL AND RABBINIC IMAGININGS OF GOD; Chapter Four. Classical Jewish Ethics and Theology in the Halakhic Tractates of the Mishnah; Chapter Five. What the Hebrew Bible Can/Cannot Teach Us about God

Chapter Six. The Bible as Torah: How J, E, P, and D Can Teach Us about GodChapter Seven. Job, the Levantine Book: A Beginning Guide through Human Perplexity; Chapter Eight. Job: Two Endings, Three Openings; Part III. CLINGING TO GOD: THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL IMAGINATION; Chapter Nine. The Repersonalization of God: Monism and Theological Polymorphism in Zoharic and Hasidic Imagination; Chapter Ten. The Word of God Is No Word at All: Intimacy and the Nothingness of God; Chapter Eleven. Who Is God?; Chapter Twelve. Jewish Theology and the Transcendental Turn

Chapter Thirteen. The Perils of Covenant Theology: The Cases of David Hartman and David NovakChapter Fourteen. Freud's Imagining God; Part IV. INSCRIPTION: GOD IN JEWISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE; Chapter Fifteen. God of Language; Chapter Sixteen. Location, Location, Location: Toward a Theology of Prepositions; Chapter Seventeen. Rethinking Milton's Hebraic God; Chapter Eighteen. Yosl Rakover



Speaks to G-d; Chapter Nineteen. "Don't Forget the Potatoes": Imagining God Through Food; Chapter Twenty. Imagining the Jewish God in Comics; Part V. POETICS: GOD IN LANGUAGE

Chapter Twenty-One. God's Inside/The Line of a Poem: A Philosophical CommentaryChapter Twenty-Two. Reconciling God, Revisioning Prayer, and Reaching into the Spaces Between in Selected Works by Alicia Ostriker, Marcia Falk, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis; Chapter Twenty-Three. Unimagining the Jewish God (Remix); Chapter Twenty-Four. Poems and Commentary; Chapter Twenty-Five. Poems; Chapter Twenty-Six. Parables and Commentary; Chapter Twenty-Seven. Poems and Commentary; Chapter Twenty-Eight. Poems; Chapter Twenty-Nine. Poems; Chapter Thirty. Poems; Chapter Thirty-One. Poems

Chapter Thirty-Two. Poems from The Days BetweenChapter Thirty-Three. Poems and Prose; Chapter Thirty-Four. Poems; Chapter Thirty-Five. Poems; Chapter Thirty-Six. Poems and Commentary; Chapter Thirty-Seven. Poems; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the possibility of a robust dialogue for all who are committed to critique and enhance the problem of graven images and yet know that even the absent God must be accounted for in contemporary thought. It includes the reflections of significant commentators, theologians, philosophers, scholars, and poets.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969953503321

Titolo

China learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-present / / edited by Thomas P. Bernstein and Hua-yu Li

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2010

ISBN

1-282-47921-0

9786612479212

0-7391-4224-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (961 p.)

Collana

Harvard Cold War studies book series

Altri autori (Persone)

BernsteinThomas P

LiHua-Yu

Disciplina

303.48/251047

327.551047

Soggetti

Communism - China - History - 20th century

Communism and culture - China

Education - China - History - 20th century

China Foreign relations Soviet Union

Soviet Union Foreign relations China

China Politics and government 1949-

China Economic conditions 1949-

China Social conditions 1949-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Complexities of Learning from the Soviet Union; I THE UPS AND DOWNS OF SINO-SOVIET RELATIONS; 1 Sino-Soviet Relations during the Mao Years, 1949-1969; 2 The Main Causes for the Return of the Changchun Railway to China and Its Impact on Sino-Soviet Relations; 3 "Only a Handshake but No Embrace": Sino-Soviet Normalization in the 1980s; II IDEOLOGICAL AND MILITARY INFLUENCES; 4 Instilling Stalinism in Chinese Party Members: Absorbing Stalin's Short Course in the 1950s; 5 The Soviet Model and the Breakdown of the Military Alliance

III SOVIET ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE AND SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION6 The Transplantation and Entrenchment of the Soviet Economic Model in



China; 7 "Get Organized": The Impact of two Soviet Models on the CCP's Rural Strategy, 1949-19531; 8 The Soviet Model and China's State Farms; IV SOCIETY; 9 "Labor Is Glorious": Model Laborers in the People's Republic of China; 10 The Soviet Impact on "Gender Equality" in China in the 1950s*; V SOVIET INFLUENCE ON SCIENCE AND EDUCATION; 11 Soviet-Chinese Academic Interactions in the 1950s: Questioning the "Impact-Response" Approach

12 "Three Blows of the Shoulder Pole": Soviet Experts at Chinese People's University, 1950-195713 Lysenkoism and the Suppression of Genetics in the PRC, 1949-1956; 14 Between Revolutions: Chinese Students in Soviet Institutes, 1948-1966; VI LITERATURE AND FILM; 15 Coming of Age in the Brave New World: The Changing Reception of How the Steel Was Tempered in the People's Republic of China1; 16 Film and Gender in Sino-Soviet Cultural Exchange, 1949-19691; VII THE ERA OF REFORM AND THE IMPACT OF THE SOVIET COLLAPSE; 17 China's Concurrent Debate about the Gorbachev Era

18 The Fate of the Soviet Model of Multinational State-Building in the People's Republic of China119 The Influence of the Collapse of the Soviet Union on China's Political Choices; Concluding Assessment: The Soviet Impact on Chinese Society; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

In this book an international group of scholars examines China's acceptance and ultimate rejection of Soviet models and practices in economic, cultural, social, and other realms.