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Early Israel
offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis.
List of contents
Introduction: The TEXT
Part 1: The CONTEXT 1. The God of Moses versus the "One and All" of Egypt: From the Magic of Hypostatized Spirituality (Egypt) to the Discriminating Paradigm of Non-Idolatry (Israel) 2. At the Primal Scene of Communication: The Question of Israel's Esoteric Referent 3. On the Notion of the
Sôd: YHWH's Garden versus the Rabbinical Orchard
Part 2: The METATEXT 4. Tracking the
Sôd through Emergence of a Complex System: Accessing the Torah's Veiled Axis of Communication 5. The
Sôd as
Poiesis: Probing the
Sôd's Poietic-Tropological Structure and Multiscalar Power Dynamics 6. A Theoretical Model of the Pentateuch: Israel's Universe of Discourse; a Replica of the Torah; Acquiring an Apposite Research Method
Part 3: The URTEXT 7. The Pentateuchal Noetic Signifier: Retrieving the Torah within the Scripture 8. Israel's Noematic Signified: Reverse-Engineering the Pentateuchal Deific Numinous 9. The
Mysterium Tremendum of the God of Israel: Recovering the Esoteric Referent of Ancient Israelite Initiatory Praxis
Part 4: The CODE-TEXT 10. Externalizing Israel's Ineffable: Complex Tropological Entextualization Strategies for the Pentateuchal Numinous 11. In the Garden of Sacred Semiosis: The Conundrum of the Eleventh Commandment, Eden's Theater of Ruptured
Doxa and Fractured
Epistêmê, and Emergence of "Megaphor" 12. Postscript: The
HORS-TEXTE
About the author
Alex S. Kohav teaches at the Department of Philosophy, Metropolitan State University of Denver. He is the editor of two recent anthologies,
Mysticism and Meaning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Three Pines Press, 2019) and
Mysticism and Experience: Twenty-First Century Approaches (Lexington Books, 2020), and a co-editor of
A Paradise of Paradoxes: Finite Infinities, the Hebrew God, and Taboo of Knowledge (in preparation). Dr. Kohav is engaged in the long-term project of developing ancient Israelite philosophy-the foundational Hebraic/Jewish metaphysics, epistemology, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and ethics of early-antiquity Israel. His forthcoming book,
Adam, a Kind of Thinker: Freedom Scales as Selves, Worlds, and Thinking Fields (Hebraic Pluri-Dimensional Perspectives) elaborates an ontology of "worlds" accessible to human beings.
Summary
Early Israel offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis.
