Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the End of the Twentieth Century

Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the End of the Twentieth Century

Ochs, Peter
Levene, Nancy

Paperback

Series: Radical Traditions (Paperback)

Religion General Judaism

Publisher Price: $35.99

ISBN10: 0802839975
ISBN13: 9780802839978
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: Jan 24 2003
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.42
Language: English
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.

Textual reasoning is the name that a group of contemporary Jewish thinkers has given to its overlapping practices of Jewish philosophy and theology. This volume represents the most public expression to date of the shared work, over a period of twelve years, of this society of textual reasoners.

Although the movement of textual reasoning is diverse and multiform, it is characterized at bottom by the pursuit of the claim that there are significant affinities between Jewish forms of reading and reasoning and postmodern thought. These affinities are presently being pursued by scholars throughout Jewish studies, in fields such as the Bible, Talmud, Midrash, medieval philosophy, Kabbalah, and the Jewish phenomenology of Rosenzweig and Levinas, among others. As the essays in this book amply convey, their work has stimulated a lively and creative reengagement with the philosophical dimensions of Jewish texts and, even more, with the textual dimensions of Jewish reasoning. In large part, this new energy has come from conceiving of the postmodern as a place where some of the most distinctive features of Jewish reasoning can be elucidated as well as challenged.

A fine addition to the Radical Traditions series, Textual reasonings provides a superb review of contemporary Jewish thought.

Contributors: Eugene B. Borowitz, Tikva Frymer- Kensy, George Lindbeck,

Also from

Ochs, Peter

View All

Also in

Judaism

View All