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What is a God? - Philosophical Perspectives on Divine Essence in the Hebrew Bible (Paperback)
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What is a God? - Philosophical Perspectives on Divine Essence in the Hebrew Bible (Paperback)
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In this book Jaco Gericke is concerned with different ways of
approaching the question of what, according to the Hebrew Bible, a
god was assumed to be. As a supplement to the tradition of
predominantly linguistic, historical, literary, comparative,
social-scientific and related ways of looking at the research
problem, Gericke offers a variety of experimental philosophical
perspectives that aim to take a step back from the scholarly
discussion as it has unfolded hitherto in order to provide a new
type of worry when looking at the riddle of what the biblical texts
assumed made a god divine. Consisting of a brief history of
philosophical interpretations of the concepts of whatness and
essence from Socrates to Derrida, the relevant ideas are adapted
and reapplied to look at some interesting metaphysical oddities
arising from generic uses of elohim/el/eloah as common noun in the
Hebrew Bible. As such the study seeks to be a prolegomenon to all
future research in that, instead of answering the question
regarding a supposed nature of divinity, it aims to complicate it
beyond expectation. In this way a case is made for a more nuanced
and indeterminate manner of constructing the problem of what it
meant to call something a god.
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