Jewish Culture between Canon and Heresy

David Biale (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2023
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3433-6 (ISBN)

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This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These pieces, written between 1974 and 2016, are all representative of a method Biale calls "counter-history": "the discovery of vital forces precisely in what others considered marginal, disreputable and irrational." The themes that have preoccupied Biale throughout the course of his distinguished career—in particular power, sexuality, blood, and secular Jewish thought—span the periods of the Bible, late antiquity, and the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Exemplary essays in this volume argue for the dialectical relationship between modernity and its precursors in the older tradition, working together to "brush history against the grain" in order to provide a sweeping look at the history of the Jewish people. This volume of work by one of the boldest and most intellectually omnivorous Jewish thinkers of our time will be essential reading for scholars and students of Jewish studies.

David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis.

Introduction: Between Canon and Counterhistory

1. The God with Breasts: El Shaddai in the Bible

2. Korah in the Midrash: The Hairless Heretic as Hero

3. Counterhistory and Jewish Polemics against Christianity: The Sefer Toldot Yeshu and the Sefer Zerubavel

4. "The Torah Speaks the Language of Human Beings": Abraham Ibn Ezra's Radical Interpretation of the Bible

5. Between Melancholy and a Broken Heart: A Note on Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav's Depression

6. The Kabbalah in Nachman Krochmal's Philosophy of History

7. Masochism and Philosemitism: The Strange Case of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

8. Historical Heresies and Modern Jewish Identity

9. Shabbtai Zvi and the Seductions of Jewish Orientalism

10. Leo Strauss: The Philosopher as Weimar Jew

11. Arendt in Jerusalem: Hannah Arendt on the Eichmann Trial

12. Gershom Scholem's "Ten Unhistorical Aphorisms on the Kabbalah": Text and Commentary

13. The Threat of Messianism: An Interview with Gershom Scholem (August 14, 1980)

14. Mysticism and Politics in Modern Israel: The Messianic Ideology of Abraham Isaac Ha-Cohen Kook

15. The End of Enlightenment?

Epilogue: By the Waters of San Francisco: A Partial Autobiography

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	1-5036-3433-7 / 1503634337
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3433-6 / 9781503634336
Zustand	Neuware