Fragile finitude : a Jewish hermeneutical theology / Michael Fishbane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fishbane, Michael, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Job.

Hermeneutics--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Hermeneutics.

Bible. Job--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 179 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In Fragile Finitude, the long-awaited follow-up to Sacred Attunement(2008), Fishbane clears new ground for theological experience and its expressions through a novel reinterpretation of the Book of Job. His reinterpretation is based on the traditional four types of Jewish Scriptural exegesis: the contextual plain sense; the rabbinic legal and theological sense; the figural philosophical and spiritual sense; and the symbolic mystical sense. The first focuses on worldly experience; the second on communal forms of life and thought in the rabbinic tradition; the third on personal development; and the fourth on transcendent and 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Interlude One p. 21

Part 2 Peshat p. 27

Interlude Two p. 55

Part 3 Derash p. 61

Interlude Three p. 93

Part 4 Remez p. 101

Interlude Four p. 125

Part 5 Sod p. 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226764153

022676415X

OCLC:

1196820001

Publisher Number:

99987396279