Jewish Culture and Creativity: Essays in Honor of Professor Michael Fishbane on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday

Published by Academic Studies Press 2023

Jewish Culture and Creativity

Essays in Honor of Professor Michael Fishbane on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday

Edited by: Eitan P. Fishbane and Elisha Russ-Fishbane

https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887193076

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Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish culture, and concluding with case studies of the creative application of Prof. Fishbane’s thought and theology in contemporary Jewish life. The innovative scholarship represented in this volume offers critical new perspectives from antiquity to contemporary Judaism and will serve as a stimulus for new directions in and beyond the field of Jewish studies.

Author / Editor information

Fishbane Eitan P. :

Eitan P. Fishbane is Professor of Jewish Thought at The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), and he specializes in the study of Jewish mysticism from medieval to modern times. Among his books are: As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist (Stanford, 2009); The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar (Oxford, 2018); and Embers of Pilgrimage (Panui Poetry Series, 2021). He is currently completing work on a new book, entitled Shabbat in Hasidic Thought: Sacred Time and Mystical Consciousness.
Russ-Fishbane Elisha :

Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, is a historian of Jewish life and culture in the medieval Islamic world. His books include Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Times (Oxford, 2015) and Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2022). He is currently at work on a book on Islam in the medieval Jewish imagination.

Eitan P. Fishbane is Professor of Jewish Thought at The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), and he specializes in the study of Jewish mysticism from medieval to modern times. Among his books are: As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist (Stanford, 2009); The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar (Oxford, 2018); and Embers of Pilgrimage (Panui Poetry Series, 2021). He is currently completing work on a new book, entitled Shabbat in Hasidic Thought: Sacred Time and Mystical Consciousness.

Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, is a historian of Jewish life and culture in the medieval Islamic world. His books include Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Times (Oxford, 2015) and Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2022). He is currently at work on a book on Islam in the medieval Jewish imagination.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Preface Eitan P. Fishbane and Elisha Russ-Fishbane Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. The Spiritual Vocation of a Teacher: A Meditation Michael Fishbane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
BIBLE AND HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
2. Monotheism and Anthropopathism in Hosea 11: Divine Personhood vs. Immutability in Biblical Theology Benjamin D. Sommer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
3 Before Eilu va’eilu: The Pentateuchal Anthology and Tolerance of Difference Elsie R. Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
4. The Isaiah Bulla, Jeremiah the Priest/Prophet, and Reinterpreting the Prophet (nby’) in the Persian Scribal Community William Schniedewind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
CLASSICAL RABBINIC LITERATURE
5. Eden Lost and Regained: Mythmaking in Midrash Deborah Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
6. Gehinnom’s Punishments in Classical Rabbinic Literature Dov Weiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
7. Problematizing the Midrashic Book in an Imperial Landscape Natalie B. Dohrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
8. Substitutes for Sacrifice, Community Stewardship, and Rabbinic Paideia: Tractates Tithes and Second Tithe of the Mishnah Jonathan Schofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
9 Thinking Gender through Grammar: BT Qiddushin 2a–3b Jane L. Kanarek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE
10 Exegetical Palimpsests: The Eros and Mythos of Poetic Intertextuality Laura S. Lieber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
11. Beyond “Intention” in Ibn Paquda’s Duties of the Hearts Omer Michaelis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
12. Songs to the Soul in Medieval Hebrew Poetry Elisha Russ-Fishbane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
13. Pronouncing Words, Creating Worlds: Matter and Form in Joseph Giqatilla’s Hermeneutics Tzvi Schoenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
14. The Power of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Power: Physiognomy and the Masters of Secrets in the Zohar Ellen Haskell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
15. Mystical Autobiography in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE Eitan P. Fishbane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE
16. Child Mind in H. asidic Spirituality Sam S. B. Shonkof Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
17. These Gates Open to the Longings of the Heart Ora Wiskind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
18. Emotion, Autonomy, and the Mind in the Piaseczner Rebbe James Jacobson-Maisels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
19. “An Upside Down World”: The Concept of America in H. aredi Theology Nathaniel Deutsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
20. Five Dimensions of Dignity: Jonathan Sacks on Judaism and the Human Condition Dov Lerner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
21. The Forgetting of Isaac David N. Gottlieb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
22. Pedagogies of PaRDeS: Michael Fishbane’s Jewish Hermeneutical Theology as a Vision of Contemporary Spiritual Education Daniel Marom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
23. Encounters across the Ages at the Edge of Childhood: Learning from “Modern Jewish Thought” Rebecca Schorsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
24. Strategic Discretion: Game Theory Models for Interactions of Transgender Jews and Their Orthodox Rabbis Hillel Gray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Michael Fishbane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Index of Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	396

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 410
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
Keywords: Jewish studies; biblical literature; rabbinic literature; medieval Jewish culture; modern Jewish culture; theology; Jewish thought; contemporary Jewish life

eBook

Published: October 31, 2023
ISBN: 9798887193076