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The Age of the Parakletos - A Historical Defense of Rabbinic Knowledge (Hardcover)
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The Age of the Parakletos - A Historical Defense of Rabbinic Knowledge (Hardcover)
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This book concerns the history of the Bible, Christianity, Rabbinic
Judaism, and theological-political thought in the West. Its
operation is threefold. First, it shows that the biblical text can
be read as a theological-political narrative about a god who
strives to be recognized as such by a group of people. Second, it
reconstructs the history of the conversation that took place around
this narrative from the fourth century BCE to the beginning of the
Middle Ages, showing how it was dependent on social and political
circumstances, rather than on theological notions. Lastly, it
distinguishes between two strands of the conversation-the Christian
and the Rabbinic-that carried the narrative through the Middle Ages
and explains why the latter offered a more advanced interface with
the political reality than the former. This book introduces a
reading of the biblical narrative that takes seriously the
difference between the two creation stories that begin the Book of
Genesis and considers them as referring to two distinct divinities.
This reading reveals in the Bible an overarching narrative about
the god Yhwh, who tries to impose himself as the sovereign of
Israel by claiming that he is the same god as Elohim-the benevolent
creator of the perfect world.
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