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Jewish Culture and Creativity : Essays in Honor of Professor Michael Fishbane on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday / ed. by Eitan P. Fishbane, Elisha Russ-Fishbane.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)Content type:
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Spiritual Vocation of a Teacher: A Meditation -- BIBLE AND HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION -- 2. Monotheism and Anthropopathism in Hosea 11: Divine Personhood vs. Immutability in Biblical Theology -- 3 Before Eilu va’eilu: The Pentateuchal Anthology and Tolerance of Difference -- 4. The Isaiah Bulla, Jeremiah the Priest/Prophet, and Reinterpreting the Prophet (nby’) in the Persian Scribal Community -- CLASSICAL RABBINIC LITERATURE -- 5. Eden Lost and Regained: Mythmaking in Midrash -- 6. Gehinnom’s Punishments in Classical Rabbinic Literature -- 7. Problematizing the Midrashic Book in an Imperial Landscape -- 8. Substitutes for Sacrifice, Community Stewardship, and Rabbinic Paideia: Tractates Tithes and Second Tithe of the Mishnah -- 9 Thinking Gender through Grammar: BT Qiddushin 2a–3b -- MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE -- 10 Exegetical Palimpsests: The Eros and Mythos of Poetic Intertextuality -- 11. Beyond “Intention” in Ibn Paquda’s Duties of the Hearts -- 12. Songs to the Soul in Medieval Hebrew Poetry -- 13. Pronouncing Words, Creating Worlds: Matter and Form in Joseph Giqatilla’s Hermeneutics -- 14. The Power of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Power: Physiognomy and the Masters of Secrets in the Zohar -- 15. Mystical Autobiography in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah -- MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE -- 16. Child Mind in H. asidic Spirituality -- 17. These Gates Open to the Longings of the Heart -- 18. Emotion, Autonomy, and the Mind in the Piaseczner Rebbe -- 19. “An Upside Down World”: The Concept of America in H. aredi Theology -- 20. Five Dimensions of Dignity: Jonathan Sacks on Judaism and the Human Condition -- 21. The Forgetting of Isaac -- 22. Pedagogies of PaRDeS: Michael Fishbane’s Jewish Hermeneutical Theology as a Vision of Contemporary Spiritual Education -- 23. Encounters across the Ages at the Edge of Childhood: Learning from “Modern Jewish Thought” -- 24. Strategic Discretion: Game Theory Models for Interactions of Transgender Jews and Their Orthodox Rabbis -- Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Michael Fishbane -- General Index -- Index of Sources
Summary: Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish culture, and concluding with case studies of the creative application of Prof. Fishbane’s thought and theology in contemporary Jewish life. The innovative scholarship represented in this volume offers critical new perspectives from antiquity to contemporary Judaism and will serve as a stimulus for new directions in and beyond the field of Jewish studies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Spiritual Vocation of a Teacher: A Meditation -- BIBLE AND HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION -- 2. Monotheism and Anthropopathism in Hosea 11: Divine Personhood vs. Immutability in Biblical Theology -- 3 Before Eilu va’eilu: The Pentateuchal Anthology and Tolerance of Difference -- 4. The Isaiah Bulla, Jeremiah the Priest/Prophet, and Reinterpreting the Prophet (nby’) in the Persian Scribal Community -- CLASSICAL RABBINIC LITERATURE -- 5. Eden Lost and Regained: Mythmaking in Midrash -- 6. Gehinnom’s Punishments in Classical Rabbinic Literature -- 7. Problematizing the Midrashic Book in an Imperial Landscape -- 8. Substitutes for Sacrifice, Community Stewardship, and Rabbinic Paideia: Tractates Tithes and Second Tithe of the Mishnah -- 9 Thinking Gender through Grammar: BT Qiddushin 2a–3b -- MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE -- 10 Exegetical Palimpsests: The Eros and Mythos of Poetic Intertextuality -- 11. Beyond “Intention” in Ibn Paquda’s Duties of the Hearts -- 12. Songs to the Soul in Medieval Hebrew Poetry -- 13. Pronouncing Words, Creating Worlds: Matter and Form in Joseph Giqatilla’s Hermeneutics -- 14. The Power of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Power: Physiognomy and the Masters of Secrets in the Zohar -- 15. Mystical Autobiography in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah -- MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE -- 16. Child Mind in H. asidic Spirituality -- 17. These Gates Open to the Longings of the Heart -- 18. Emotion, Autonomy, and the Mind in the Piaseczner Rebbe -- 19. “An Upside Down World”: The Concept of America in H. aredi Theology -- 20. Five Dimensions of Dignity: Jonathan Sacks on Judaism and the Human Condition -- 21. The Forgetting of Isaac -- 22. Pedagogies of PaRDeS: Michael Fishbane’s Jewish Hermeneutical Theology as a Vision of Contemporary Spiritual Education -- 23. Encounters across the Ages at the Edge of Childhood: Learning from “Modern Jewish Thought” -- 24. Strategic Discretion: Game Theory Models for Interactions of Transgender Jews and Their Orthodox Rabbis -- Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Michael Fishbane -- General Index -- Index of Sources

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Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish culture, and concluding with case studies of the creative application of Prof. Fishbane’s thought and theology in contemporary Jewish life. The innovative scholarship represented in this volume offers critical new perspectives from antiquity to contemporary Judaism and will serve as a stimulus for new directions in and beyond the field of Jewish studies.

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