Last Rabbi - Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition

Informationen zum Autor William Kolbrener is Professor of English at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He is author of Open Minded Torah: Of Irony, Fundamentalism, and Love. Klappentext William Kolbrener is Professor of English at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He is author of Open Minded Torah: Of Irony, Fundamentalism, and Love. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations of Works Preface Introduction: The Making of Joseph Soloveitchik and the Unmaking of Talmudic Tradition Part I: Talmudic Tradition: Mourning 1. Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Mourning 2. Pluralism, Rabbinic Poetry and Dispute Part II: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik: Melancholy Interlude: Primal Scene in Pruzhna 3. Love, Repentance, Sublimation 4. Joseph Soloveitchik, A Melancholy Modern 5. Beyond the Law: Repentance and Gendered Memory 6. From Interpretive Conquest to Antithetic Ethics Conclusion: The Last Rabbi and Talmudic Irony Notes Index

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• Authors: William Kolbrener
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780253022240
• ISBN: 978-0-253-02224-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: New Jewish Philosophy and Thou; New Jewish Philosophy and Thought; New Jewish Philosophy and Thou; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works