Suchergebnisse

Medieval Christian use of Hebrew and postbiblical Jewish texts -- Nicholas of Lyra, O.F.M.: mediating Hebrew traditions for a Christian audience -- The challenge of unbelief: knowing Christian truth through Jewish scripture -- Wrestling with Rashi: Nicholas of Lyra's quodlibetal questions and anti-Jewish polemic -- Christian ownership of Jewish text: Nicholas of Lyra as an alternative Jewish authority

Preface / Thomas Michel -- Introduction / Harold Kasimov -- From windfall to fall : the conversos in the Society of Jesus / Marc Rastoin -- Reflections on the dialogue between Jew and non-Jew in the Bible and in rabbinic literature / Tovia Ben-Chorin -- The goal of the Ignatian exercises and Soloveitchik's halakhic spirituality / Christian M. Rutishauser -- An Ignatian perspective on contemporary Jewish spirituality / Donald Moore -- The Jewish theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel as a challenge for Catholic theology / Stanislaw Obirek -- The genius and the wisdom of Harold Bloom / Peter Du Brul -- From Midrash to Rashi to contemporary narrative exegesis (R. Alter, M. Sternberg, et al.) : continuity in Jewish biblical reading / Jean-Pierre Sonnet -- Inscribe the new in the old : inner-biblical exegesis (M. Fishbane) and the hermeneutics of innovation (B. Levinson) / Jean-Pierre Sonnet -- A Catholic conversation with Hannah Arendt / James Bernauer -- What might Israelis and Jews learn about Christians and Christianity at Yad Vashem? / David M. Neuhaus

Argues that Muslim extremist religious sensibility pushes terrorists to bypass traditionalism in the transmission of religiosity in favor of a "self-evident" textualism. In this light, the original biblical text inspiring Islamic & Christian Scriptures that glorify violence & sacrifice to seal an eternal communion with God, the Akeidah ([the binding] Abraham's attempted sacrifice of his son, Isaac), is analyzed. Focus is on Moses Maimonides's & Rashi's perspectives, which, contrary to Muslim extremist interpretations, affirms the unbridgeable distance between man & God. Maimonides & Rashi are seen to subvert the conventional understanding of Abraham's test, & these interpretations are compared to the negative theology of other scholars, eg, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the Netziv, & Levinas. The latter's reading is contrasted with Soren Kierkegaard's. Attention turns to an elaboration of Kierkegaard's Christianized understanding of faith via a delineation of some central topics in the theory & experience of faith: (1) inwardness & concealment, (2) law, (3) death, (4) philosophy & the doubter, (5) repentance, & (6) cyclical vs linear conceptions of time. In this light, Koranic motivations for Islamic terrorism & Muslim fundamentalism are sketched in terms of Gnosticism, & a negative theological perspective then discounts such a Gnostic interpretation. The Koran's construal of the Akeidah is read thusly, & the Muslim extremist utilization of the story is viewed as bogus. J. Zendejas