Imagining the Jewish God

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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 “text” as foundational for the imagined “people of the book.” 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-09-09
Mått162 x 234 x 47 mm
Vikt1 007 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGraven Images
Antal sidor574
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498517492

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I. Prologue: Inscription1. A Conversation about God, Norman Finkelstein and Michael Heller2. Seeing Divine Writing: Thoughts on the Drama of the Outside within the Technology of Inscription, Lewis Freedman3. Questions Posed to Jonathan Boyarin, Jonathan BoyarinII. Out of Levant: Biblical and Rabbinic Imaginings of God4. Classical Jewish Ethics and Theology in the Halakhic Tractates of the Mishnah, Jonathan Wyn Schofer5. What the Hebrew Bible Can/Cannot Teach us About God, Kenneth Seeskin6. The Bible as Torah: How J, E, P and D Can Teach Us About God, Benjamin Sommer7. Job: A Fragmented Genealogy, Leonard Kaplan8. Two Endings, Three Openings, Alicia OstrikerIII. Clinging to God: The Jewish Theological Imagination9. The Repersonalization of God: Monism and Theological Polymorphism in Zoharic and Hasidic Imagination, Jay Michaelson10.The Word of God is No Word At All: Intimacy and the Nothingness of God, Shaul Magid11. Who is God?, Lenn Goodman12. Jewish Theology and the Transcendental Turn, Randi Rashkover13. The Perils of Covenant Theology: The Cases of David Hartman and David Novak, Martin Kavka14. Freud’s Imagining God, David NovakIV. Inscription: God in Jewish Literature and Culture15. God of Language, Michael Marmur16. Location, Location, Location: Toward a Theology of Prepositions, Rebecca Alpert17. Rethinking Milton’s Hebraic God, Noam Reisner18. Yosl Rakover Speaks to G-d, Elissa J. Sampson19. ‘Don’t Forget the Potatoes’: Imagining God Through Food, Susan Handelman20. Imagining the Jewish God in Comics, Ken Koltun-FrommV. Poetics: God in Language21. God’s Inside/The Line of a Poem—A Philosophical Commentary, Zachary Braiterman22. Reconciling God, Revisioning Prayer, and Reaching into the Spaces Between in Selected Works by Alicia Ostriker, Marcia Falk, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Alison Creighton23. Select Poetry, Charles Bernstein24. Select Poetry and Commentary, Laynie Browne25. Select Poetry, Clive Meachen26. Select Poetry and Commentary, Howard Schwartz27. Select Poetry and Commentary, Rachel Blau DuPlessis28. Select Poetry, Bill Sherman29. Select Poetry, David Weisstub30. Select Poetry, James Chapson31. Select Poetry, Jack Hirschman32. Selections from The Days Between, Marcia Falk33. Select Poetry and Prose, Jeff Friedman34. Select Poetry, Gerald Stern35. Select Poetry, Michael Castro36. Select Poetry and Commentary, Jerry Rothenberg37. Select Poetry, Alicia Ostriker

The Jewish tradition presents God in graphic, anthropomorphic terms and, at the same time, as beyond any description. Secularism and the Holocaust have blinded some of us to the realm of the transcendent altogether, but many others continue to experience the transcendent in both the everyday and the unusual but do not know how to unpack that experience. The editors of Imagining the Jewish God have thus wisely chosen to include many of the best minds and hearts and many types of materials, from philosophy to poetry, to help us see the range of Jews' attempt to describe their experience of the transcendent and what that experience means for their lives.