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The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is through the symbolic forms of language that the human world of value is revealed--this is where religious scholar Michael Fishbane dwells in his latest contribution to Jewish thought.
In Fragile Finitude, Fishbane clears new ground for a theological life through a novel reinterpretation of the Book of Job. On this basis, he offers a contemporary engagement with the four classical types of Jewish Scriptural exegesis. The first focuses on worldly experience, the second on communal forms of practice and thought in the rabbinical tradition, the third on personal development, and the fourth on transcendent, cosmic orientations. Through these four modes, Fishbane manages to transform Jewish theology from within, at once reinvigorating a long tradition and moving beyond it. What he offers is nothing short of a way to reorient our lives in relation to the divine and our fellow humans. Written from within the Jewish tradition, Fragile Finitude is intended for readers across the religious spectrum.
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Michael Fishbane
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
April 2021
Weight
523g
Dimensions
15.8 x 23.4 x 2.8 cm
ISBN
9780226764153
ISBN-10
022676415X
Eden Code
5613263
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