ISBN-13: 9780521895262 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 222 str.
ISBN-13: 9780521895262 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 222 str.
Rosenzweig s Bible examines the high stakes, both theological and political, of Franz Rosenzweig s attempt to revivify the Hebrew Bible and use it as the basis for a Jewish textual identity. Mara Benjamin s innovative reading of The Star of Redemption places Rosenzweig s best-known work at the beginning of an intellectual trajectory that culminated in a monumental translation of the Bible, thus overturning fundamental assumptions that have long guided the appraisal of this titan of modern Jewish thought. She argues that Rosenzweig s response to modernity was paradoxical: he challenged his readers to encounter the biblical text as revelation, reinventing scripture both the Bible itself and the very notion of a scriptural text in order to invigorate Jewish intellectual and social life, but did so in a distinctly modern key, ultimately reinforcing the foundations of German-Jewish post-Enlightenment liberal thought. Rosenzweig s Bible illuminates the complex interactions that arise when modern readers engage the sacred texts of ancient religious traditions."