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Informationen zum Autor Leonard Kaplan is professor emeritus of law at the University of Wisconsin.Ken Koltun-Fromm is professor of religion at Haverford College. Klappentext This book presents the possibility of a robust dialogue for all who are committed to critique and enhance the problem of graven images and yet know that even the absent God must be accounted for in contemporary thought. It includes the reflections of significant commentators, theologians, philosophers, scholars, and poets. Zusammenfassung This book presents the possibility of a robust dialogue for all who are committed to critique and enhance the problem of graven images and yet know that even the absent God must be accounted for in contemporary thought. It includes the reflections of significant commentators! theologians! philosophers! scholars! and poets. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Prologue: Inscription1. A Conversation about God, Norman Finkelstein and Michael Heller2. Seeing Divine Writing: Thoughts on the Drama of the Outside within the Technology of Inscription, Lewis Freedman3. Questions Posed to Jonathan Boyarin, Jonathan BoyarinII. Out of Levant: Biblical and Rabbinic Imaginings of God4. Classical Jewish Ethics and Theology in the Halakhic Tractates of the Mishnah, Jonathan Wyn Schofer5. What the Hebrew Bible Can/Cannot Teach us About God, Kenneth Seeskin6. The Bible as Torah: How J, E, P and D Can Teach Us About God, Benjamin Sommer7. Job: A Fragmented Genealogy, Leonard Kaplan8. Two Endings, Three Openings, Alicia OstrikerIII. Clinging to God: The Jewish Theological Imagination9. The Repersonalization of God: Monism and Theological Polymorphism in Zoharic and Hasidic Imagination, Jay Michaelson10.The Word of God is No Word At All: Intimacy and the Nothingness of God, Shaul Magid11. Who is God?, Lenn Goodman12. Jewish Theology and the Transcendental Turn, Randi Rashkover13. The Perils of Covenant Theology: The Cases of David Hartman and David Novak, Martin Kavka14. Freud's Imagining God, David NovakIV. Inscription: God in Jewish Literature and Culture15. God of Language, Michael Marmur16. Location, Location, Location: Toward a Theology of Prepositions, Rebecca Alpert17. Rethinking Milton's Hebraic God, Noam Reisner18. Yosl Rakover Speaks to G-d, Elissa J. Sampson19. 'Don't Forget the Potatoes': Imagining God Through Food, Susan Handelman20. Imagining the Jewish God in Comics, Ken Koltun-FrommV. Poetics: God in Language21. God's Inside/The Line of a Poem-A Philosophical Commentary, Zachary Braiterman22. Reconciling God, Revisioning Prayer, and Reaching into the Spaces Between in Selected Works by Alicia Ostriker, Marcia Falk, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Alison Creighton23. Select Poetry, Charles Bernstein24. Select Poetry and Commentary, Laynie Browne25. Select Poetry, Clive Meachen26. Select Poetry and Commentary, Howard Schwartz27. Select Poetry and Commentary, Rachel Blau DuPlessis28. Select Poetry, Bill Sherman29. Select Poetry, David Weisstub30. Select Poetry, James Chapson31. Select Poetry, Jack Hirschman32. Selections from The Days Between, Marcia Falk33. Select Poetry and Prose, Jeff Friedman34. Select Poetry, Gerald Stern35. Select Poetry, Michael Castro36. Select Poetry and Commentary, Jerry Rothenberg37. Select Poetry, Alicia Ostriker...