Biblical Poetry Through Medieval Jewish
β Adele Berlin
π Library
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1991
π Indiana University Press
π English
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Understanding YHWH: The Name of God in Biblical, Rabbinic, and Medieval Jewish Thought
β Scribed by Hillel Ben-Sasson
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 307
- Series
- Jewish Thought and Philosophy
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2019
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism. Providing a single conceptual key adapted from the philosophical debate on proper names, the book paints a dynamic picture of YHWHβs meanings over a spectrum of periods and genres, portraying an evolving interaction between two theological motivations: the wish to speak about God and the wish to speak to Him. Through this investigation, the book shows how Jews interpreted God's name in attempt to map the human-God relation, and to determine the measure of possibility for believers to realize a divine presence in their midst, through language.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Introduction (Hillel Ben-Sasson)....Pages 1-21
Front Matter ....Pages 23-23
Conditional Presence: The Meaning of the Name YHWH in the Bible (Hillel Ben-Sasson)....Pages 25-65
Compassionate Presence: YHWH and the Measure of Mercy (Hillel Ben-Sasson)....Pages 67-91
Omnipresence: Invoking the Divine Name YHWH in Rabbinic Blessing (Hillel Ben-Sasson)....Pages 93-124
Front Matter ....Pages 125-129
Personal and Non-personal Divine Presence: The Name YHWH in the Thought of R. Abraham Ibn Ezra and R. Judah Halevi (Hillel Ben-Sasson)....Pages 131-161
βSilence Is Praise to Theeβ: The Name YHWH in the Negative Theology of Medieval Judaism (Hillel Ben-Sasson)....Pages 163-193
A Dynamic Linguistic Picture: The Name YHWH in Sefer ha-Bahir and in Early Provencal and Geronese Kabbalah (Hillel Ben-Sasson)....Pages 195-279
Toward an Outline of Jewish Name-Theology (Hillel Ben-Sasson)....Pages 281-297
Back Matter ....Pages 299-304
β¦ Subjects
Religious Studies; Jewish Theology; Philosophy of Language; History, general
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