Rosenzweig's Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish by Mara H. Benjamin

March 16, 2017 adminJudaism

By Mara H. Benjamin

Rosenzweig's Bible examines the excessive stakes, either theological and political, of Franz Rosenzweig's try to revivify the Hebrew Bible and use it because the foundation for a Jewish textual identification. Mara Benjamin's cutting edge examining of The superstar of Redemption areas Rosenzweig's best-known paintings firstly of an highbrow trajectory that culminated in a huge translation of the Bible, therefore overturning basic assumptions that experience lengthy guided the appraisal of this titan of recent Jewish idea. She argues that Rosenzweig's reaction to modernity used to be paradoxical: he challenged his readers to come across the biblical textual content as revelation, reinventing scripture – either the Bible itself and the very concept of a scriptural textual content – so as to invigorate Jewish highbrow and social existence, yet did so in a especially smooth key, eventually reinforcing the rules of German-Jewish post-Enlightenment liberal inspiration. Rosenzweig's Bible illuminates the complicated interactions that come up whilst smooth readers have interaction the sacred texts of historical spiritual traditions.

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