Tanakh Epistemology - Knowledge and Power, Religious and Secular

Uses the tools of modern and postmodern philosophy and biblical criticism to elucidate the epistemology of the Tanakh.

List of contents

1. Reading epistemology in the Tanakh; 2. Unveiling knowledge/power; 3. Apokalypto, revelation, Imperium; 4. A revelatory observable; 5. Sees hears knows; 6. Qoheleth's critique of wisdom, knowledge, and critical thought; 7. Tanakh epistemology in modernity; 8. Tanakh epistemology and postmodernism; 9. Synthesis; 10. Consequences; Conclusion.

About the author

Douglas Yoder is an independent scholar of philosophy and biblical literature.

Summary

The Tanakh's approach to knowledge is cohesive, bold, and unexpected. This book argues that an understanding of Tanakh epistemology can lead to new appraisals of religious and secular life throughout the modern world and provides a new foundation for Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and secular readers to better understand themselves and each other.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Yoder
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108498609
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49860-9
• No. of pages: 420
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Religionsphilosophie, Philosophie, Judentum, RELIGION / Judaism / General, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, BIBLES / General, Philosophy, RELIGION / Philosophy, Judaism, Philosophy of religion, Old Testaments