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

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (575 p.)
• Disciplina: 296.3/11
• Soggetto topico: God (Judaism)
• Persona (resp. second.): KaplanLeonard <1941->; Koltun-FrommKen
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Imagining the Jewish God
• ISBN: 1-4985-1750-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812859403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Graven images (Lanham, Md.)