LEADER 04081nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910822172403321 005 20220416010612.0 010 $a1-282-72196-8 010 $a9786612721960 010 $a1-4008-3664-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400836642 035 $a(CKB)2670000000056596 035 $a(EBL)581804 035 $a(OCoLC)671644657 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000424254 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11276764 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424254 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10474239 035 $a(PQKB)10748649 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36767 035 $a(DE-B1597)446793 035 $a(OCoLC)979749572 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400836642 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581804 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10409303 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL272196 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581804 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000056596 100 $a20100212d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNot in the heavens$b[electronic resource] $ethe tradition of Jewish secular thought /$fDavid Biale 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-16804-0 311 0 $a0-691-14723-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Origins --$tChapter 1. God: Pantheists, Kabbalists, and Pagans --$tChapter 2. Torah: The Secular Jewish Bible --$tChapter 3. Israel: Race, Nation, or State --$tChapter 4. Israel: History, Language, and Culture --$tConclusion: God, Torah, and Israel --$tEpilogue: Legacy --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aNot in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response to modernity but arose from forces long at play within Judaism itself. Biale explores how ancient Hebrew books like Job, Song of Songs, and Esther downplay or even exclude God altogether, and how Spinoza, inspired by medieval Jewish philosophy, recast the biblical God in the role of nature and stripped the Torah of its revelatory status to instead read scripture as a historical and cultural text. Biale examines the influential Jewish thinkers who followed in Spinoza's secularizing footsteps, such as Salomon Maimon, Heinrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein. He tells the stories of those who also took their cues from medieval Jewish mysticism in their revolts against tradition, including Hayim Nahman Bialik, Gershom Scholem, and Franz Kafka. And he looks at Zionists like David Ben-Gurion and other secular political thinkers who recast Israel and the Bible in modern terms of race, nationalism, and the state. Not in the Heavens demonstrates how these many Jewish paths to secularism were dependent, in complex and paradoxical ways, on the very religious traditions they were rejecting, and examines the legacy and meaning of Jewish secularism today. 606 $aJudaism$xHistory$yModern period, 1750- 606 $aSecularization (Theology)$xHistory of doctrines 606 $aJudaism and secularism 606 $aSecularism 606 $aJews$xCultural assimilation 606 $aJews$xIdentity 615 0$aJudaism$xHistory 615 0$aSecularization (Theology)$xHistory of doctrines. 615 0$aJudaism and secularism. 615 0$aSecularism. 615 0$aJews$xCultural assimilation. 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 676 $a296.3/7 700 $aBiale$b David$f1949-$0451366 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822172403321 996 $aNot in the heavens$94118675 997 $aUNINA