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Open Minded Torah : Of Irony, Fundamentalism and Love.
In ""Open Minded Torah"", William Kolbrener offers a voice advocating renewed Jewish commitment andopenness for the twenty-first century.
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue, Velvel, Govorovo, 1939; Part I Desire and self; 1 Making exceptions; 2 Do it again, Denzel: Fantasy and second chances; 3 Caught in the act: Torah and desire; 4 Just dreaminâ#x80;#x99;: The Talmud and the interpretation of dreams; 5 The big game: Baseball, John Milton, and making choices; 6 Of rabbis and rotting meat; 7 Identity is out!; 8 Isaacâ#x80;#x99;s bad rap; 9 Cheeseburger; 10 Writing an inspirational story; 11 Eros and translation; 12 â#x80;#x98;Swaying towards perfectionâ#x80;#x99;: Torah, worldliness, and perversion.
- 13 Jacobâ#x80;#x99;s scar: Wounding and identity14 Torah and the pleasure principle; Part II Dispute and community; 15 Oedipus in a Kippa; 16 Open minded Torah I: Judaism and fundamentalism; 17 Irony Ã#x9C;ber Alles: An episcopal passover; 18 Of false kabbalists and conjurers: Parenting and idolatry; 19 From Sinai to the Uzi: New and old Zionisms; 20 Modernity is hell: Korah and Hobbes; 21 Lost and found; 22 The poetry of the world: Godâ#x80;#x99;s place; 23 Open minded Torah II: Judaism and postmodernism; 24 Stepping up; 25 Prayer and the people: A new siddur; 26 A religion for adults?
- 27 Of fundamentalists, rabbis and irony28 Donâ#x80;#x99;t take away my mitzva!; 29 Fear and loathing in Jerusalem; 30 Open minded Torah III: Between fundamentalism and postmodernism; Part III Time and memory; 31 â#x80;#x98;Carpe Diem, Dudeâ#x80;#x99;; 32 The antidote for religion: Fear of God; 33 Speech in exile and the voice of the shofar; 34 Back to the future: Yom Kippur, time, and creative repentance; 35 Shades of faith: My sukka is not insured by AIG; 36 â#x80;#x98;A special conversationâ#x80;#x99;: Freud, the Maharal, and the Sabbath; 37 Lighting up: The beauty of Hanuka.
- 38 Whose letter is it anyway? Esther, Aristotle, and the art of letter-writing39 Cosmic consciousness: The Beatles, passover, and the power of storytelling; 40 Traumaâ#x80;#x99;s legacy: On Israelâ#x80;#x99;s Memorial Day; 41 Why I gave up biblical criticism andjust learned to love; 42 Faceless: The ninth of Av; Epilogue: Shmuel, Jerusalem, 2011; Citations; Select bibliography; Index.