Galit Hasan-Rokem
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics and Hermeneutics offers new perspectives on the ways in which Job's response to disaster has become an aesthetic and ethical touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events. This volume begins with an exploration of questions such as the tragic and ironic bent of the Book of Job, Job as...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Das Buch enthält Beiträge, Dokumentationen und einen Katalog der ethnografischen Abteilung des Museum of the Contemporary in Jerusalem. Es ist das Ergebnis eines Projekts zur Beziehung zwischen jüdischer Ethnographie und israelischer Gegenwartskunst, das im Mamuta Art and Research Center durchgeführt und von der Gruppe Sala-Manca kuratiert wurde. Es enthält u.a. Beiträge von Y. Bilu, R. Elior, F. Rokem und D. Rotman über den Dybbuk, von G....
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the biblical Book of Lamentations, provides a unique lens for thinking about the relationships between destruction and renewal, mourning and remembrance, loss and redemption, expression and the inexpressible. This anthology features four texts by Gershom Scholem...