Imagining the Jewish God (eBook)

Leonard Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm (Herausgeber)

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2016
574 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1750-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and poems as a living text meant to provoke a substantive and nourishing dialogue. A responsive, living covenant lies at the heart of this book-a covenantal reciprocity that actively engages the dynamics of Jewish thinking and acting in dialogue with God. The contributors to this volume are committed to this form of textual reasoning, even as they all move us beyond the "e;text"e; as foundational for the imagined "e;people of the book."e; That people, we submit, lives and breathes in and beyond the texts of poetry, narrative, sacred literature, film, and graphic mediums. We imagine the Jewish people, and the covenant they respond to, as provocative intimations of the divine. The essays in this volume seek to draw these vocal intimations out so that we can all hear their resonant call.

Autor

Leonard Kaplan is professor emeritus of law at the University of Wisconsin.Ken Koltun-Fromm is professor of religion at Haverford College.

Inhalt

Norman Finkelstein and Michael HellerLewis FreedmanJonathan BoyarinJonathan Wyn SchoferKenneth SeeskinBenjamin SommerLeonard KaplanAlicia OstrikerJay MichaelsonShaul MagidLenn GoodmanRandi RashkoverMartin KavkaDavid NovakMichael MarmurRebecca AlpertNoam ReisnerElissa J. SampsonSusan HandelmanKen Koltun-FrommZachary BraitermanAlison CreightonCharles BernsteinLaynie BrowneClive MeachenHoward SchwartzRachel Blau DuPlessisBill ShermanDavid WeisstubJames ChapsonJack HirschmanThe Days Between, Marcia FalkJeff FriedmanGerald SternMichael CastroJerry RothenbergAlicia Ostriker

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.9.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Graven Images
• Co-Autor: Rebecca Alpert, Marcia Falk, Norman Finkelstein, Lewis Freedman, Jeff Friedman, Lenn Goodman, Susan Handelman, Michael Heller, Jack Hirschman, Leonard Kaplan, Leonard V. Kaplan, Charles Bernstein, Martin Kavka, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Shaul Magid, Michael Marmur, Jay Michaelson, David Novak, Alicia Ostriker, Randi Rashkover, Noam Reisner, Jerome Rothenberg, Jonathan Boyarin, Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Howard Schwartz, Kenneth Seeskin, Bill Sherman, Benjamin Sommer, Gerald Stern, Zachary Braiterman, Laynie Browne, Michael Castro, James Chapson, Alison Creighton, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Zusatzinfo: 21 Illustrations including: - 10 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 10 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Bible • God • Graven Images • Imagination • Jewish covenant • Jewish philosophy • Jewish Poetry • Jewish Theology • Jewish thought • Mysticism • Rabbinics
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1750-1 / 1498517501
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1750-8 / 9781498517508