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Oedipus The Teacher (Paperback)
Kalman J. Kaplan; Foreword by Matthew B. Schwartz
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Oedipus Redeemed (Paperback)
Kalman J. Kaplan; Foreword by Matthew B. Schwartz
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Oedipus Redeemed (Hardcover)
Kalman J. Kaplan; Foreword by Matthew B. Schwartz
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This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of
history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element
in both Western culture and the individual, and how to treat it.
Ancient Greek society displays in its literature and the lives of
its people an obsessive interest in suicide and death. Kaplan and
Schwartz have explored the psychodynamic roots of this problem--in
particular, the tragic confusion of the Greek heroic impulse and
its commitment to unsatisfactory choices that are destructively
rigid and harsh. The ancient Hebraic writings speak little of
suicide and approach reality and freedom in vastly different terms:
God is an involved parent, caring for his children. Therefore,
heroism, in the Greek sense, is not needed nor is the individual
compelled to choose between impossible alternatives. In each of the
first three sections, the authors discuss the issues of suicide
from a comparative framework, whether in thought or myth, then the
suicide-inducing effects of the Graeco-Roman world, and finally,
the suicide-preventing effects of the Hebrew world. The final
section draws on this material to present a suicide prevention
therapy. Historical in scope, the book offers a new psychological
model linking culture to the suicidal personality and suggests an
antidote, especially with regard to the treatment of the suicidal
individual.
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Roman Letters (Paperback)
Matthew B. Schwartz, Finley Hooper
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Discovery Miles 8 400
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In much of Western literature and Greek mythology, women have
an evident lack of purpose; a woman needs to either enter or leave
a relationship in order to find herself and her own identity.
Matthew Schwartz and Kalman Kaplan set out to prove that the
converse is true in the text of the Hebrew Bible. Examining the
stories of women in Scripture ? Rebecca, Miriam, Gomer, Ruth and
Naomi, Lot's wife, Zipporah, and dozens more ? Schwartz and Kaplan
illustrate the biblical woman's strong feminine sense of being
crucial to God's plan for the world and for history, courageously
seeking the greatest good for herself and others whatever the
circumstances. Empowering, illuminating, and fascinating, The Fruit
of Her Hands makes a singular contribution to the fields of
biblical and women's studies.
We live in an age when it is not uncommon for politicians to invoke
religious doctrine to explain their beliefs and positions on
everything from domestic to foreign policy. And yet, many of us
would be hard pressed to pinpoint the exact source of these
political beliefs in the religious texts that are said to have
spawned them. In Politics in the Hebrew Bible: God, Man, and
Government, Kalman J. Kaplan and Matthew B. Schwartz offer a
genre-straddling examination of the political themes in the Jewish
Bible. By studying the political implications of 42 biblical
stories (organized into the categories Social Order, Government and
Leadership, Domestic Relations, Societal Relations, Morale and
Mission, and Foreign Policy), the authors seek to discern a
cohesive political viewpoint embodied by the Jewish Bible.
Throughout the text, the views put forth in the Jewish Bible are
compared to those put forth by Greco-Roman philosophers in order to
argue that the Bible offers a worldview that fosters a "high degree
of creative individualism within a supportive non-chaotic and
well-functioning society". Kaplan and Schwartz are generous with
their explanations of Greco-Roman philosophical concepts in the
introductory chapters and with giving background information about
the biblical stories engaged in the text.
In The Seven Habits of the Good Life, the authors highlight seven
biblical gifts_self-esteem, wisdom, righteousness, love, healthy
appetite, prudence, and purpose_and present each one as an
alternative to one of the seven deadly sins. Each gift gives
readers a chance to enrich their lives by integrating concern for
themselves with a healthy concern for others rather than punishing
themselves for bad behavior. Incorporating clinical case studies,
the voices of real people, and biblical stories, this book shows
how the wisdom of the scriptures can provide us concrete ways of
redefining difficult situations and approaching life in a way that
strives for fullness, harmony, and balance.
This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of
history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element
in both Western culture and the individual, and how to treat it.
Ancient Greek society displays in its literature and the lives of
its people an obsessive interest in suicide and death. Kaplan and
Schwartz have explored the psychodynamic roots of this problem--in
particular, the tragic confusion of the Greek heroic impulse and
its commitment to unsatisfactory choices that are destructively
rigid and harsh. The ancient Hebraic writings speak little of
suicide and approach reality and freedom in vastly different terms:
God is an involved parent, caring for his children. Therefore,
heroism, in the Greek sense, is not needed nor is the individual
compelled to choose between impossible alternatives.
In each of the first three sections, the authors discuss the
issues of suicide from a comparative framework, whether in thought
or myth, then the suicide-inducing effects of the Graeco-Roman
world, and finally, the suicide-preventing effects of the Hebrew
world. The final section draws on this material to present a
suicide prevention therapy. Historical in scope, the book offers a
new psychological model linking culture to the suicidal personality
and suggests an antidote, especially with regard to the treatment
of the suicidal individual.
This book is about the difference between parables and riddles, and
between different views and definitions of wisdom and various
attitudes towards the possibility of its attainment. Both parables
and riddles go beyond a simple rote presentation of facts, which
may become tedious and likely to be tuned out or rejected. However,
there is a major difference between the two. Parables are a
dominant form of transmission of information in biblical writings,
while riddles dominate those of ancient Greece. Parables transmit
an underlying, useful life-message in a way that will not be
rejected. Riddles, in contrast, are largely unintelligible, leaving
one helpless, unable to derive any life-lesson. This book will be
of intellectual value to educators, writers, therapists,
story-tellers, clergy, and classicists, as well as anyone
interested in the implications of ancient views of wisdom for
modern education.
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