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Persons and Other Things : Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible / Mark Glouberman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021]Copyright date: 2021Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781487508982
  • 9781487539443
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 221.601 23
LOC classification:
  • BS1186 .G66 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preamble: … with a loosened tie -- PRINCIPLES -- 1 Bibleism and Judaism: Four and a Half Dogmas of Bible Interpretation -- 2 Godless the Bible’s Philosophy Isn’t -- 3 “Jew” as a Category Label: Philosophy on the Holocaust -- 4 Hero, Israel: Troy and the Torah -- PASSAGES -- 5 “On one leg”: The Stability of Monotheism -- 6 “Where were you?”: The Logic of the Book of Job -- 7 “Let them have dominion”: The Bible and the Natural World -- 8 “Because … God rested”: Philosophy on the Sabbath Day -- 9 “In the day that you shall eat”: Do and Die -- PEOPLE -- 10 Eat, Pray, Smoke: Halakhah for Everyone -- 11 God Loves You, Christopher Hitchens -- 12 Jerry and Jewry: Ethnicity and Humanity in G.A. Cohen -- 13 “O God, O Montreal!”: Charles Taylor and Turbocharged Humanism -- 14 A Plea for Ontology: Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos -- 15 Phenomenology and Analysis: A Bridge over the Waters -- Epilogue: The Acts of the Philosophers -- Finale: “The rest is the commentary thereof ” -- Notes -- Notes -- Index
Summary: The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God’s name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications of the Bible’s core anthropological teachings. In Persons and Other Things Mark Glouberman explores the Bible’s philosophy, roughing out in the course of a defence of it how men and women who see themselves in the biblical portrayal (as he argues that most of us do once the "religious" glare is reduced) are committed to conduct their personal affairs, arrange their social ties, and act in the natural world. Persons and Other Things is also the author’s testament about the practice of philosophy. Glouberman sets out the lessons he has acquired as a lifelong learner about thinking philosophically, about writing philosophy, and about philosophers.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preamble: … with a loosened tie -- PRINCIPLES -- 1 Bibleism and Judaism: Four and a Half Dogmas of Bible Interpretation -- 2 Godless the Bible’s Philosophy Isn’t -- 3 “Jew” as a Category Label: Philosophy on the Holocaust -- 4 Hero, Israel: Troy and the Torah -- PASSAGES -- 5 “On one leg”: The Stability of Monotheism -- 6 “Where were you?”: The Logic of the Book of Job -- 7 “Let them have dominion”: The Bible and the Natural World -- 8 “Because … God rested”: Philosophy on the Sabbath Day -- 9 “In the day that you shall eat”: Do and Die -- PEOPLE -- 10 Eat, Pray, Smoke: Halakhah for Everyone -- 11 God Loves You, Christopher Hitchens -- 12 Jerry and Jewry: Ethnicity and Humanity in G.A. Cohen -- 13 “O God, O Montreal!”: Charles Taylor and Turbocharged Humanism -- 14 A Plea for Ontology: Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos -- 15 Phenomenology and Analysis: A Bridge over the Waters -- Epilogue: The Acts of the Philosophers -- Finale: “The rest is the commentary thereof ” -- Notes -- Notes -- Index

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The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God’s name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications of the Bible’s core anthropological teachings. In Persons and Other Things Mark Glouberman explores the Bible’s philosophy, roughing out in the course of a defence of it how men and women who see themselves in the biblical portrayal (as he argues that most of us do once the "religious" glare is reduced) are committed to conduct their personal affairs, arrange their social ties, and act in the natural world. Persons and Other Things is also the author’s testament about the practice of philosophy. Glouberman sets out the lessons he has acquired as a lifelong learner about thinking philosophically, about writing philosophy, and about philosophers.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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