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The Philosophy of the Bible as Foundation of Jewish Culture : Philosophy of Biblical Law / Eliezer Schweid.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual HistoryPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781934843529
  • 9781618110480
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 221.6
LOC classification:
  • BS645 .S39213 2008
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- The Complementarity of Law and Narrative -- Chapter 1. The Law of the Kingdom of God -- Chapter 2. Deuteronomy (the “Second Torah”) - The Beginning of Renewal of the Written Torah as Oral Torah -- Chapter 3. The Partnership of Man and Woman in the Law of Moses and the Prophets -- Chapter 4. Universalism and Particularism - Openness to Foreign Cultures, and Isolation from their Influence -- Index
Summary: Like Spinoza in his Theological-Political Treatise, Schweid helps us grasp the potential for seeing radically new messages in this oldest of books, the Bible. The American Founding Fathers realized that the Bible offers strong support for the doctrine of popular sovereignty. Socially, it offers a message of egalitarianism, especially in the provisions of the Jubilee. It is hardly an accident that two modern political movements found mottos ready at hand from the 25th chapter of Leviticus: “Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof” (engraved on the Liberty Bell), and “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity” (motto of the Jewish National Fund). Schweid helps us to appreciate the broader message of the narrative of creation and settlement of the land in its ecumenical and planetary dimensions. The world is God’s creation, and its resources are to be deployed as necessary for the sustenance and need-fulfillment of all peoples and all creatures equally—a message very much relevant to the ecological crisis facing us all at the present time.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- The Complementarity of Law and Narrative -- Chapter 1. The Law of the Kingdom of God -- Chapter 2. Deuteronomy (the “Second Torah”) - The Beginning of Renewal of the Written Torah as Oral Torah -- Chapter 3. The Partnership of Man and Woman in the Law of Moses and the Prophets -- Chapter 4. Universalism and Particularism - Openness to Foreign Cultures, and Isolation from their Influence -- Index

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Like Spinoza in his Theological-Political Treatise, Schweid helps us grasp the potential for seeing radically new messages in this oldest of books, the Bible. The American Founding Fathers realized that the Bible offers strong support for the doctrine of popular sovereignty. Socially, it offers a message of egalitarianism, especially in the provisions of the Jubilee. It is hardly an accident that two modern political movements found mottos ready at hand from the 25th chapter of Leviticus: “Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof” (engraved on the Liberty Bell), and “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity” (motto of the Jewish National Fund). Schweid helps us to appreciate the broader message of the narrative of creation and settlement of the land in its ecumenical and planetary dimensions. The world is God’s creation, and its resources are to be deployed as necessary for the sustenance and need-fulfillment of all peoples and all creatures equally—a message very much relevant to the ecological crisis facing us all at the present time.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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