Persons and Other Things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible

Mark Glouberman

Published by University of Toronto Press 2021

Persons and Other Things

Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible

Mark Glouberman

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487539443

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About this book

Persons and Other Things looks closely at the Bible as a philosophical work, asking insightful questions about how to interpret the Hebrew Bible, what it means to be Jewish, and how to live a meaningful and moral life.

Author / Editor information

Glouberman Mark :

Mark Glouberman is an instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Reviews

Jerome Gellman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev:
“The book is full of engaging witticisms. There is hardly a paragraph in which there is not a pun or a play on words. And the book is packed with off-hand references to world literature, mythology, history, and philosophy, many of them beyond the ken of most readers. I found the style to be both challenging and at times worthy of a good laugh out loud.”

Steven Burns, Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University:

"Glouberman invokes fundamental principles in each of these quite varied essays. In Genesis 1, God creates the natural world (including humans); nature is a complete system, in process, and in which individuals can be individuated by their place in the system. But God’s resting on the seventh day indicates that He is a particular, not in the system. Nature doesn’t rest. Thus human beings, considered as particulars rather than as individuals, constitute limits to naturalism."

Richard Keshen, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Cape Breton University:

"In Persons and Other Things, Mark Glouberman emphasizes that the philosophy of Genesis stands or falls as philosophy and is distinct from religion or theology. Glouberman conveys the Hebrew philosophers’ insights through an original interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2. To further deepen his position about the relevance of the Bible to Western philosophy, Glouberman shows that the biblical philosophy of non-naturalism supports or undermines the central positions of important contemporary philosophers such as P.F. Strawson, Charles Taylor, and Thomas Nagel."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preamble: … with a loosened tie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PRINCIPLES
1 Bibleism and Judaism: Four and a Half Dogmas of Bible Interpretation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2 Godless the Bible’s Philosophy Isn’t Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3 “Jew” as a Category Label: Philosophy on the Holocaust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
4 Hero, Israel: Troy and the Torah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
PASSAGES
5 “On one leg”: The Stability of Monotheism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
6 “Where were you?”: The Logic of the Book of Job Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
7 “Let them have dominion”: The Bible and the Natural World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
8 “Because … God rested”: Philosophy on the Sabbath Day Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
9 “In the day that you shall eat”: Do and Die Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
PEOPLE
10 Eat, Pray, Smoke: Halakhah for Everyone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
11 God Loves You, Christopher Hitchens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
12 Jerry and Jewry: Ethnicity and Humanity in G.A. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
13 “O God, O Montreal!”: Charles Taylor and Turbocharged Humanism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
14 A Plea for Ontology: Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
15 Phenomenology and Analysis: A Bridge over the Waters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Epilogue: The Acts of the Philosophers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Finale: “The rest is the commentary thereof ” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Keywords: philosophy; God in the Hebrew Bible; ontology; metaphysics; the category of the particular; Jewish; persons; Judaism; halakhah; religion and religiosity; writing philosophy; Christopher Hitchens; monotheism

eBook

Published: July 30, 2021
ISBN: 9781487539443