The Open Canon

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9669-0
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: The Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies

This book outlines the broad spectrum of answers to important questions presented in Jewish literature, covering theological issues bearing on the meaning of the Torah and of revelation, as well as hermeneutical questions regarding understanding of the halakhic text.

This is the first volume to attempt to provide a comprehensive map of the available views and theories concerning the theological, hermeneutical, and ontological meaning of dispute as a constitutive element of Halakhah. It offers an attentive reading of the texts and strives to present, clearly and exhaustively, the conscious account of Jewish tradition in general and of halakhic tradition in particular concerning the meaning of halakhic discourse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sagi, Avi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part 1: The Monistic Outlook
1. Halakhah Follows Beth Hillel: The Rejected Option in Monism
2. Monism: The ‘Valid Decision’ Concept
3. Monism: Dispute and The Concept Of Revelation
Part 2: The Pluralistic Outlook
4. Revelation and Halakhic Pluralism
5. The Limits of Halakhic Pluralism and the Nature of Halakhic Inference
6. Halakhah Follows Beth Hillel: The Pluralistic Version
Part 3: The Harmonic Outlook
7. The Union of Opposites
8. ‘Reality Knows No Opposites’
Part 4: These And These Are the Words of the Living God - Halakhic Values
9. The Religious Value of the Quest for Truth
10. ‘Torah Shall Go Forth Today- that Had Not Gone Forth Yesterday’: The Value of Innovation

Part 5: On Dispute And Authority
11. Dispute in Halakhic Culture: Historical Phenomenon or Constitutive Element

12. On Authority and the Duty of Obedience

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Avi Sagi is a member of Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Philosophy and is founder and director of that university’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies. He is Senior Research Fellow at Shalom Hartman Institute. He has written and edited numerous books and articles in Jewish and general philosophy, among them Religion and Morality (with Daniel Statman, New York: 1995) and the recently released Judaism: Between Religion and Morality (Tel Aviv: 1998) and Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd (New York: 2002).