Is there philosophy in the Hebrew Bible? Some recent affirmative perspectives

This article discusses a selection of the most recent examples from both biblical scholarship and Jewish philosophy of the construction of the Hebrew Bible as a philosophical resource. By way of a descriptive overview of the relevant ideas in the writings of exemplars such as Davies, Hazony, Gericke...

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Main Author: Gericke, Jaco (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2014
In: Journal for semitics
Year: 2014, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 583-598
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:This article discusses a selection of the most recent examples from both biblical scholarship and Jewish philosophy of the construction of the Hebrew Bible as a philosophical resource. By way of a descriptive overview of the relevant ideas in the writings of exemplars such as Davies, Hazony, Gericke, Glouberman and Sekine, the study reveals a neglected albeit radical trend in the contemporary attempted return of philosophy to Hebrew Bible interpretation and vice-versa. These new developments are labelled "philosophical maximalism", involving as they do the classification of the entire corpus of the Hebrew Bible as philosophical literature, in one sense or another.
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
Persistent identifiers:HDL: 10520/EJC166265