Mark Glouberman

Persons and Other Things

Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 398mm x 316mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781487508982
• ISBN-10: 1487508980
• Artikelnr.: 60602704

Autorenporträt

By Mark Glouberman

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Preamble ... with a loosened tie
Principles
1. Bibleism and Judaism: Four and a Half Dogmas of Bible Interpretation
2. Godless the Bible’s Philosophy Isn’t
3. "Jew" as a Category Label: Philosophy on the Holocaust
4. Hero, Israel: Troy and the Torah
Passages
5. "On one leg": The Stability of Monotheism
6. "Where were you?": The Logic of the Book of Job
7. "Let them have dominion": The Bible and the Natural World
8. "Because ... God rested": Philosophy on the Sabbath Day
9. "In the day that you shall eat": Do and Die
People
10. Eat, Pray, Smoke: Halakhah for the Goldsteins and the Goyim
11. God Loves You, Christopher Hitchens
12. Jerry and Jewry: Ethnicity and Humanity in G.A. Cohen
13. "O God, O Montreal!": Charles Taylor and Turbo-Charged Humanism
14. A Plea for Ontology: Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos
15. Phenomenology and Analysis: A Bridge over the Waters
Epilogue: The Acts of the Philosophers
Finale: "The rest is the commentary thereof"
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index