Carnal Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carnal Israel write by Daniel Boyarin. This book was released on 1993-09-17. Carnal Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism—that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church—Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity. The body—specifically, the sexualized body—could not be renounced, for the Rabbis believed as a religious principle in the generation of offspring and hence in intercourse sanctioned by marriage. This belief bound men and women together and made impossible the various modes of gender separation practiced by early Christians. The commitment to coupling did not imply a resolution of the unequal distribution of power that characterized relations between the sexes in all late-antique societies. But Boyarin argues strenuously that the male construction and treatment of women in rabbinic Judaism did not rest on a loathing of the female body. Thus, without ignoring the currents of sexual domination that course through the Talmudic texts, Boyarin insists that the rabbinic account of human sexuality, different from that of the Hellenistic Judaisms and Pauline Christianity, has something important and empowering to teach us today.
What is Israel? and Who are true Israelites? A letter to the Rev. J. C. Ryle
What is Israel? and Who are true Israelites? A letter to the Rev. J. C. Ryle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What is Israel? and Who are true Israelites? A letter to the Rev. J. C. Ryle write by James Horsburgh MACDONALD (Lieut. Col., H.E.I.C.S.). This book was released on 1856. What is Israel? and Who are true Israelites? A letter to the Rev. J. C. Ryle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Armageddon
Armageddon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armageddon write by Samuel Davies Baldwin. This book was released on 1878. Armageddon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Thinking Jewish Culture in America
Thinking Jewish Culture in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thinking Jewish Culture in America write by Ken Koltun-Fromm. This book was released on 2013-12-11. Thinking Jewish Culture in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies. The eleven contributors to Thinking Jewish Cultures, together with Chancellor Arnold Eisen’s postscript, position Jewish thought within the dynamics and possibilities of contemporary Jewish culture. These diverse essays in Jewish thought re-imagine cultural space as a public and sometimes contested performance of Jewish identity, and they each seek to re-enliven that space with reflective accounts of cultural meaning. How do Jews imagine themselves as embodied actors in America? Do cultural obligations limit or expand notions of the self? How should we imagine Jewish thought as a cultural performance? What notions of peoplehood might sustain a vibrant Jewish collectivity in a globalized economy? How do programs in Jewish studies work within the academy? These and other questions engage both Jewish thought and culture, opening space for theoretical works to broaden the range of cultural studies, and to deepen our understanding of Jewish cultural dynamics. Thinking Jewish Culture is a work about Jewish cultural identity reflected through literature, visual arts, philosophy, and theology. But it is more than a mere reflection of cultural patterns and choices: the argument pursued throughout Thinking Jewish Culture is that reflective sources help produce the very cultural meanings and performances they purport to analyze.
Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah
Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah write by Joseph Addison Alexander. This book was released on 1878. Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
