Be Fertile And Increase Fill The Earth And Master It

Author : Jeremy Cohen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745670
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It" written by Jeremy Cohen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative, interdisciplinary book reconstructs the career of Genesis 1:28 ("Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it...") in Judaism and Christianity, from antiquity through the Reformation. Jeremy Cohen tracks the text through all the Jewish and Christian sources in which it figures significantly—in law, exegesis, homily, theology, mysticism, philosophy, and even vernacular poetry. In his view, the verse situates man and woman on a cosmic frontier, midway between the angelic and the bestial, charging them with singular responsibilities that bear directly on Jewish and Christian ideas of God's "chosen people."

Author : Jonas Carl Greenfield
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9780931464935
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solving Riddles and Untying Knots written by Jonas Carl Greenfield and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1995 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonas Greenfield was one of the foremost epigraphers and biblical scholars of this generation. This volume, dedicated to Professor Greenfield by his students, colleagues, and friends, reflects the broad spectrum of academic interests he pursued: Bible, Qumran, epigraphy, and Semitics.

Author : Jeremy Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master it written by Jeremy Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructs the career of Genesis I:28 in Judaism and Christianity, from antiquity through the Reformation. Cohen tracks the text through all the Jewish and Christian sources in which it figures significantly--in law, exegesis, homily, theology, mysticism, philosophy, and even vernacular poetry. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Judith R. Baskin
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611688698
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midrashic Women written by Judith R. Baskin and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansions of the biblical text, rabbinic ruminations, and homiletical discourses that constitutes the non-legal component of rabbinic literature. Examining rabbinic convictions of female alterity, competing narratives of creation, and justifications of female disadvantages, as well as aggadic understandings of the ideal wife, the dilemma of infertility, and women among women and as individuals, she shows that rabbinic Judaism, a tradition formed by men for a male community, deeply valued the essential contributions of wives and mothers while also consciously constructing women as other and lesser than men. Recent feminist scholarship has illuminated many aspects of the significance of gender in biblical and halakhic texts but there has been little previous study of how aggadic literature portrays females and the feminine. Such representations, Baskin argues, often offer a more nuanced and complex view of women and their actual lives than the rigorous proscriptions of legal discourse.

Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415644259
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Eden written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western culture from Columbus' voyages to today's tropical island retreats. Few narratives are so powerful - and, as Carolyn Merchant shows, so misguided and destructive - as the dream of recapturing a lost paradise. A sweeping account of these quixotic endeavors by one of America's leading environmentalists, Reinventing Eden traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations in shopping malls, theme parks and gated communities. With eloquence and insight, Merchant shows how the drive to conquer nature and to explore and settle the globe, springs from this utopian pastoral impulse throughout Western history. Time and again, human manipulation of the environment is our downfall: Eden is achieved by fencing off pristine beauty in national parks and wildlife preserves, while leaving the majority of the earth in ruins. Challenging both narratives, Merchant argues that the green veneer of city-park conservation has become a cover for the corruption of the earth and the neglect of its environment. Reinventing Eden is a bold new way to think about the earth that includes green political parties, sustainable development and a partnership between humans and earth that is nothing short of an ecological revolution.

Author : Patricia Seed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521497572
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640 written by Patricia Seed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1996 comparative history exploring the significance of ceremonies performed by the western imperial powers to mark their territorial possession of the New World.

Author : Robert A. Paul
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501370049
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Two-Track Minds written by Robert A. Paul and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many of Freud's original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such as Civilization and Its Discontents and Totem and Taboo, though extremely influential in the early part of the 20th century, have more recently been either neglected or else dismissed as long-outdated fantasies. Robert A. Paul shows that Freud's ideas in these books, and his thinking on how human society is possible, given the unpromising materials out of which it is constructed (i.e. human beings), can appear in a different and more favorable light when viewed through the lens of contemporary anthropology, cultural studies, and evolutionary theory.

Author : Phillip Michael Sherman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004248617
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babel’s Tower Translated written by Phillip Michael Sherman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Babel's Tower Translated, Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g., Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambiguous. The meaning of the narrative and the actions of both the human characters and the Israelite deity defy any easy explanation. This work explores how changing historical and hermeneutical realities altered and shifted the meaning of the text in Jewish antiquity.

Author : Steven Bayme
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881255546
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Jewish History written by Steven Bayme and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805212396
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beginning of Desire written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant interpretation of familiar biblical narratives that "deserves to be the most widely read book on the Bible in years, perhaps decades." (Jewish Exponent). Since its publication in 1995, The Beginning of Desire has opened new pathways in the reading of the Bible. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s innovative use of midrash, literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis draws deeply upon the familiar biblical narratives to produce interpretations that are at once startlingly beautiful and completely authentic. Illuminating the tensions that grip human beings as they search for an encounter with God, Zornberg gives us a brilliant analysis of the stories of Adam and Eve; Noah; Abraham and Sarah; Isaac and Rebecca; Jacob, Rachel, and Leah; and Joseph and his brothers.