Jose Faur, Josae Faur

The Horizontal Society

Understanding the Covenant and Alphabetic Judaism (Vol. 1)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Horizontal Society is an exposition of rabbinic thought as exemplified by Maimonides. The thought streams of Greece, Rome, and Christendom serve as a contrast. This work is in the Hebrew rhetorical tradition of melisa. The main text in five sections--The God of Israel, The Books of Israel, The Governance of Israel, The Memory of Israel, and The Folly of Israel-focuses on these core matters. It includes numerous references to orient the reader. The mode is similar to the author's previous work, such as Golden Doves with Silver Dots: Semiotics and Textuality in Rabbinic Tradition, interacting with the latest thought from today's academy. This book illustrates the horizontal organization of the Jewish people. Other social organization is based on hierarchy. Two principles made this difference possible for Israel. First, the Hebrew Scriptures alone propose that every human being is created in the image of God. This necessitates the absolute equality of every human being. Second, the Sinai covenant establishes the Law as the supreme authority. Whereas in other societies, might is the source of authority, in Judaism authority is limited by the Law. These principles were summarized by the last Prophet of Israel: "Had not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously., profaning the covenant of our fathers?" (Mal 2:10). There is a subdivided bibliography of forty pages, including both Jewish and "Western" sources. The scholarly apparatus includes indices of terms, names, and subjects. There are also seventy appendices of interest to a rabbinic readership.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 861g
• ISBN-13: 9781934843130
• ISBN-10: 193484313X
• Artikelnr.: 24790979

Autorenporträt

José Faur (PhD 1964, University of Barcelona) is Professor Emeritus, Law School, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel. He was the first Jewish recipient of a doctorate from the University of Barcelona since the Expulsion in 1492. He has taught at JTS and Bar-Ilan University and published in Hebrew, Spanish, French, Italian and English. His books include: Golden Doves with Silver Dots: Semiotics and Textuality in Rabbinic Tradition (Indiana UP, 1986); In the Shadow of History: Iberian Jews and Conversos at the Dawn of Modernity (SUNY, 1992); Homo Mysticus: A Guide To Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed (Syracuse UP, 1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. Hebrew Transliteration Table. Abbreviations.
Prologue. Section 1: The God of Israel. Introductory Remarks. 1. The Book
of Creation. 2. Monolingualism and the Analphabetic Mind. 3. God as a
Writer. 4. Of Scribes and Analphabetic Poets. Concluding Reflections.
Section 2: The Books of Israel. Introductory Remarks. 5. the Berit
('Covenant') Sinai-Moab. 6. Scripture and the Mental Law of Israel. 7. The
Publication of Scripture. 8. Epistles and Memoranda. 9. Interpreting the
Books of Israel. 10. Law and the Judiciary. 11. The Boundaries Derasha.
Concluding Reflections. Section 3: The Governance of Israel. Introductory
Remarks. 12. Of Herut. 13. Hierarchic Humanity. 14. Horizontal Man. 15. The
Household of Israel. 16. Humanity before Statehood. 17. God's Territory.
18. The Three Crowns of Israel. 19. Hebrew Theocracy: Sovereignty under the
Law. 20. The Crown of a Good Name. 21. Galut: Right without Might. 22.
Jewish Dominion over the Land of Israel. 23. Pagan Political Thought. 24. A
Perfect Tora. 25. The Five Doctrines Taught by Patriarch Abraham. 26. The
Two-Realm Governance. 27. Silencing Scripture. The Road to Serfdom: Freedom
without Law. 29. Paul's Theo-politics. 30. Escape From Guilt. 31. Imperial
Religion. 32. The Poltical Dimension of Anti-Semitism. 33. Two Concepts of
Human Rights. 34. Pax Romana and Pax Hebraica. 35. The Sabbath is the
Lord's. 36. Separating Church from State. Concluding Reflections. Section
4: The Memory of Israel. Introductory Remarks. 37. National Memory. 38. the
Matrix of Jewish Memory. 39. Walking Under the Fox's Shadow. 40. The
Emergence of the Sword / Cross Axis. 41. A Crisis of Memory. 42. Unmasking
Spurious Versus Israel. 43. The Publication of the Mishna. 44. Minting
Tradition into Oral Law. 45. National and Vernacular Memory. 46. Melisa and
the Realm of the Verisimilar. 47. Expanding National Memory. 48. Kalla and
the Formation of the Babylonian Talmud. Concluding Reflections. Section 5:
The Folly of Israel. Introductory Remarks. 49. Qabbala and the Conveyence
of Talmudic Tradition. 50. "Little Foxes" - Rabbis without Qabbala. 51. The
Day of the Willow. 52. The Genesis of Jewish Heroic Virtue. 53. Heroic
Knowledge. 54. Payback Time - The Case of Catalonian Rabbis. 55."Our Lords,
the Rabbis of France". 56. Fighting Assimilation?. 57. Kabbalah vs.
Qabbala. 58. Cult of the Occult. 59. The Anti-Scientific Obstinancy of
Maimonideans. 60. The Five Pillars of Anti-Maimonidean Kabbalah. 61 The
Problem with 'Philosophy'. 62. A Reflective Response to R. Hayye Gaon's
Call. 63. The Mishne Tora. 64. Hierarchic Truth. 65. Inerrant Saint. 66.
Israel's Fourth Miracle. Concluding Reflections. Epilogue.