The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture - The Center for Hebraic . . . What if it’s not really about miracles or the afterlife – but about how to lead our lives in this world? The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture proposes a new framework for reading the Bible It shows how biblical authors used narrative and prophetic oratory to advance universal arguments about ethics, political philosophy and metaphysics
IS THERE PHILOSOPHY IN THE HEBREW BIBLE? SOME RECENT . . . Davies thinks that the Hebrew Bible is philosophical discourse in the sense of putting forward philosophical (“intellectual”) ideas about, inter alia, human nature, political theory, divine omnipotence, mercy and justice, history, ethics, etc (see also Davies 2011b:153-162)
Tanakh Its Readers: Between “The Philosophy Of Hebrew . . . The average reader of Tanakh can gain all of the universal concepts about the good life that Hazony argues are the primary messages of Tanakh, but only the philosophical reader will be able to put that in dialogue with the rest of the world’s philosophical traditions
Exploring Jewish Philosophy: Ancient Wisdom Today – Scripture . . . The historical context of Jewish philosophy is a rich tapestry that begins with the biblical interpretation of ancient Hebrew scriptures, traveling through the corridors of time to influence various aspects of Jewish thought today
Jewish Philosophical Theology: A Brief Overview But the ideas that find expression in the Hebrew Scriptures—the metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy of the biblical authors—have seldom been explored by the field of biblical studies in a systematic fashion
The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: A Review - Randal Rauser The good news is that Hazony’s vision of the Hebrew scriptures as a tradition of open enquiry rather than fixed revelation allows ample room for various appropriations of the contents of the Law and other troubling aspects of the texts
The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture proposes a new framework for reading the Bible It shows how biblical authors used narrative and prophetic oratory to advance universal arguments about ethics, political philosophy and metaphysics