Interpreting Judaism In A Postmodern Age

Author : Steven Kepnes
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814746756
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age written by Steven Kepnes and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Jewish studies scholars interpret Jewish texts from various postmodern critical stances, finding resonances between the theories of interpretation and the texts themselves e.g. "the word" as cosmology in both deconstructionism and the Torah. The papers examine deconstruction and the bible, Talmudic cultural poetics, Kabbalistic Hermeneutics, struggles over the Hebrew canon, postmodernism and the Holocaust, Zionism and post-Zionist discourses, and Jewish feminist identity. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Steven Kepnes
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814746752
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age written by Steven Kepnes and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Jewish studies scholars interpret Jewish texts from various postmodern critical stances, finding resonances between the theories of interpretation and the texts themselves e.g. "the word" as cosmology in both deconstructionism and the Torah. The papers examine deconstruction and the bible, Talmudic cultural poetics, Kabbalistic Hermeneutics, struggles over the Hebrew canon, postmodernism and the Holocaust, Zionism and post-Zionist discourses, and Jewish feminist identity. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789624231
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age written by Miriam Feldmann Kaye and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a critical study of the writings of Rav Shagar and Tamar Ross, Miriam Feldmann Kaye asks how Jewish theology can survive the tide of postmodernism and its refutation of a single, objective, and ultimate truth, and suggests how aspects of postmodernism might be conceived of as a potential resource for rejuvenating religion.

Author : S. Daniel Breslauer
Publisher : South Florida-Rochester-St. Lo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mordecai Kaplan's Thought in a Postmodern Age written by S. Daniel Breslauer and published by South Florida-Rochester-St. Lo. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Author : Shimʻon Gershon Rozenberg
Publisher : Maggid
ISBN 13 : 9781592644643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith Shattered and Restored written by Shimʻon Gershon Rozenberg and published by Maggid. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judaism in the Postmodern Age.

Author : Kimberley C. Patton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520923863
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Magic Still Dwells written by Kimberley C. Patton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of religion, involving different scales of comparison for different purposes, is both justifiable and necessary. A Magic Still Dwells brings together leading historians of religions from a wide range of backgrounds and vantage points, and draws from traditions as diverse as Indo-European mythology, ancient Greek religion, Judaism, Buddhism, Ndembu ritual, and the spectrum of religions practiced in America. The contributors take seriously the postmodern critique, explain its impact on their work, uphold or reject various premises, and in several cases demonstrate new comparative approaches. Together, the essays represent a state-of-the-art assessment of current issues in the comparative study of religion.

Author : Steven Kepnes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429966385
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reasoning After Revelation written by Steven Kepnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, three preeminent Jewish scholars debate the form and meaning of Postmodern Jewish Philosophy after the failures of the great secular ideologies of modern western civilization. Emulating the methods as well as the premises of Talmudic argumentation, the authors present their responses as dialogues joined by a common love of the rabbinic tradition of commentary and interpretation of the Bible. The composers, Peter Ochs, Robert Gibbs, and Steven Kepnes, contemplate where Judaism has beenand where it is headed: on what basis will modern Jews now reason about the meaning of Jewish existence and the relevance of age-old Biblical traditions to the moral and social crises of the twenty-first century? The dialogues are further enriched by a set of responses from leading Jewish philosophers: Elliot R. Wolfson, Edith Wyschogrod, Almut Sh. Bruckstein, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, and Susan E. Shapiro. }Postmodern Jewish thinkers understand their Jewishness differently, but they all share a fidelity to what they call the Torah and to communal practices of reading and social action that have their bases in rabbinic interpretations of biblical narrative, law, and belief. Thus, postmodern Jewish thinking is thinking about God, Jews, and the worldwith the texts of the Torahin the company of fellow seekers and believers. It utilizes the tools of philosophy, but without their modern premises. Moreover, this form of Jewish thinking provides resources for philosophically disciplined readings of scripture by Jews, Christians, and Moslems seeking alternatives to the reductive discourses of secular academia, on the one hand, and to antimodern religious fundamentalisms, on the other. Postmodern Jewish Philosophy aims to utilize rabbinic modes of thinking to provide a model for ethical and religious thought in the twenty-first century, one which moves beyond the dichotomy of relativism and imperialism and is simultaneously definite and pluralistic. In Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, three preeminent Jewish scholars debate the form and meaning of Postmodern Jewish Philosophy after the failures of the great secular ideologies of modern western civilization. Emulating the methods as well as the premises of Talmudic argumentation, the authors present their responses as dialogues joined by a common love of the rabbinic tradition of commentary and interpretation of the Bible. The composers, Peter Ochs, Robert Gibbs, and Steven Kepnes, contemplate where Judaism has beenand where it is headed: on what basis will modern Jews now reason about the meaning of Jewish existence and the relevance of age-old Biblical traditions to the moral and social crises of the twenty-first century? The dialogues are further enriched by a set of responses from leading Jewish philosophers: Elliot R. Wolfson, Edith Wyschogrod, Almut Sh. Bruckstein, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, and Susan E. Shapiro.

Author : Peter Ochs
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791492796
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reviewing the Covenant written by Peter Ochs and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reviewing the Covenant, six Jewish philosophers—and one Christian colleague—respond to the work of the renowned Jewish theologian Eugene B. Borowitz, one of the leading figures in the movement of "postmodern" Jewish philosophy and theology. The title recalls Borowitz's earlier book, Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew, in which he lent this movement a theological agenda, and the essays in this book respond to Borowitz's call: to revitalize contemporary Judaism by renewing the covenant that binds modern Jews to re-live and re-interpret the traditions of Judaism's past. Together with the introductory and responsive essays by Peter Ochs and Borowitz himself, the essays offer a community of dialogue, an attempt to reason-out how Jewish faith is possible after the Holocaust and how reason itself is possible after the failings of the great "-isms" of the modern world. This dialogue is conducted under the banner of "postmodern Judaism," a daunting term that by the end of the book receives a surprisingly direct meaning, namely, the condition of disillusionment and loss out of which Jews can and must find a third way out of the modern impasse between arrogant rationalism and arrogant religion. Representing a major intellectual response to the leading theologian of liberal Judaism, the book provides a significant indication of future directions in Jewish religious thought. Contributors include Eugene B. Borowitz, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Susan Handelman, David Novak, Peter Ochs, Thomas W. Ogletree, Norbert M. Samuelson, and Edith Wyschogrod.

Author : Charles Selengut
Publisher : Paragon House
ISBN 13 : 9781557787743
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Identity in the Postmodern Age written by Charles Selengut and published by Paragon House. This book was released on 1999-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years since the foundation of the state of Israel in the wake of the Holocaust, Jewish Identity in the Post-Modern Age considers whether a traditional folk Judaism centered on the Holocaust and the state of israel can continue to serve as the bricks and mortar of Jewish identity as we move into the 21st Century. The writers ask whether a meaningful religious identity can be sustained on the basis of a historic catastrophe that is no longer to most people personal or immediate.Several essays deal frankly with the problem of maintaining Jewish commitment and continuity in the post-modern period, while others offer sociological and theological programs that meet the challenges of the new age and describe how developments can reinvigorate the tradition. Personal narratives by distinguished thinkers explore the pushes and pulls of Judaism on their own lives.

Author : Charles Selengut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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