Research Catalog

Title

Reading the Torah : beyond the fundamentalist and scientific approaches / Catherine Chalier ; translated by Michael B. Smith.

Author

Chalier, Catherine

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2017]

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Additional Authors

Smith, Michael B. (Michael Bradley), 1940-

Description

vi, 174 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Fundamentalist readings of the sacred texts of major world religions are often regarded as an ever-increasing threat to personal and democratic freedoms. Historical and critical readings, alternatively, purport to be objective and teach us to understand these texts by relating them to the past and to their authors' intentions. But while counteracting some of fundamentalism's dangers, does not this scientific refutation of such interpretations omit essential questions? Is it not likely to overlook the spirituality conveyed by the very language in which the text is written? In Reading the Torah, philosopher and Judaic studies scholar Catherine Chalier addresses these very timely issues and explains how a spiritual reading--in this case according to the Jewish tradition -- leads to an understanding of aspects of these important texts that are otherwise missed. --Publisher description.

Uniform Title

Lire la Torah. English

Alternative Title

Lire la Torah.

Subject

• Bible. > Study and teaching
• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Judaism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Translated from the French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction; The Torah, the book of the ancient Hebrews -- The spoken tradition -- Different levels of interpretation -- Traveling with the Torah -- Spirituality and history -- Conclusion

ISBN

• 9780820707068
• 0820707066

LCCN

^^2016049151

OCLC

• 959034393
• SCSB-11850980

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library