Research Catalog

Title

A critical theology of genesis : the non-absolute god / Itzhak Benyamini ; translated from Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green.

Author

Benyaminy, Yitzhak, 1968-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

Green, Yaacov Jeffrey

Description

xix, 159 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"In this book Itzhak Benyamini presents an alternative reading of Genesis, a close textual analysis from the story of creation to the binding of Isaac. This reading offers the possibility of a soft relation to God, not one characterized by fear and awe. The volume presents Don-Abraham-Quixote not as a perpetual knight of faith but as a cunning believer in the face of God's demands of him. Benyamini reads Genesis without making concessions to God, asking about Him before He examines the heart of Adam, Noah, Abraham, and the other knights of faith (if they are really that). In this way, the commentary on Genesis becomes a platform for a new type of critical theology. Through this unconventional rereading of the familiar biblical text, the book attempts to extract a different ethic, one that challenges the Kierkegaardian demand of blind faith in an all-knowing moral God and offers in its stead an alternative, everyday ethic. The ethic that Benyamini uncovers is characterized by family continuity and tradition intended to ensure that very axis--familial permanence and resilience in the face of the demanding and capricious law of God and the everyday hardships of life."--

Series Statement

Radical theologies

Uniform Title

• Tseḥoḳ Avraham. English
• Radical theologies.

Alternative Title

Tseḥoḳ Avraham.

Subject

• Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible. > Theology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFD 17-821

ISBN

• 1137595086
• 9781137595089

LCCN

2016950858

OCLC

942381044

Author

Benyaminy, Yitzhak, 1968- author.

Title

A critical theology of genesis : the non-absolute god / Itzhak Benyamini ; translated from Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green.

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Radical theologies

Radical theologies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Green, Yaacov Jeffrey, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-821