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Although the movement of textual reasoning is diverse and multiform, it is characterized at bottom by the pursuit of the claim that there are significant affinities between Jewish forms of reading and reasoning and postmodern thought. These affinities are presently being pursued by scholars throughout Jewish studies, in fields such as the Bible, Talmud, Midrash, medieval philosophy, Kabbalah, and the Jewish phenomenology of Rosenzweig and Levinas, among others. As the essays in this book amply convey, their work has stimulated a lively and creative reengagement with the philosophical dimensions of Jewish texts and, even more, with the textual dimensions of Jewish reasoning. In large part, this new energy has come from conceiving of the postmodern as a place where some of the most distinctive features of Jewish reasoning can be elucidated as well as challenged.
A fine addition to the Radical Traditions series, Textual Reasonings provides a superb review of contemporary Jewish thought.
Title: Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophy and Text Study By: Peter Ochs, Nancy Levene Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches) | Weight: 1 pound 1 ounce ISBN: 0802839975 ISBN-13: 9780802839978 Series: Radical Traditions Stock No: WW839975 |
Peter Ochs is the Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia and cofounder of the Societies of Textual Reasoning and of Scriptural Reasoning.
Nancy Levene is associate professor of religious studies and Jewish studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
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