Age of the Parákletos

Name: Age of the Parákletos
SKU: 9781793655035
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Author: Ron Naiweld
ISBN: 9781793655035

A Historical Defense of Rabbinic Knowledge

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvRon Naiweld

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This book concerns the history of the Bible, Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and theological-political thought in the West. Its operation is threefold. First, it shows that the biblical text can be read as a theological-political narrative about a god who strives to be recognized as such by a group of people. Second, it reconstructs the history of the conversation that took place around this narrative from the fourth century BCE to the beginning of the Middle Ages, showing how it was dependent on social and political circumstances, rather than on theological notions. Lastly, it distinguishes between two strands of the conversation—the Christian and the Rabbinic—that carried the narrative through the Middle Ages and explains why the latter offered a more advanced interface with the political reality than the former. This book introduces a reading of the biblical narrative that takes seriously the difference between the two creation stories that begin the Book of Genesis and considers them as referring to two distinct divinities. This reading reveals in the Bible an overarching narrative about the god Yhwh, who tries to impose himself as the sovereign of Israel by claiming that he is the same god as Elohim—the benevolent creator of the perfect world.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-01-04
Mått160 x 228 x 15 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor124
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793655035

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Ron Naiweld’s thought-provoking new book reflects about the rabbinic knowledge that was excluded from Europe at the heart of Europe. Going beyond the oft-debated questions of anti-Semitism, Holocaust, and genocide, Naiweld asks what the West 'lost by excluding rabbinic knowledge as a discourse of truth': 'Where do we place rabbinic knowledge on the axis that extends from ancient Athens, through the Hellenistic and Roman philosophers, and Christian thinkers of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to Kant and Hegel, and their critical demise by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud?' By challenging the hegemonic scholarly treatment of rabbinic literature as a mere historical document for past life of gone Jews, by thinking not on Jewish bio-politics, but on rabbinic theo-politics, Naiweld’s book is a powerful act towards the decolonization of Jewish Studies.