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Early Israel
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- Book Synopsis
- Early Israel offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis. Engaging a dozen-plus modern academic disciplines-from anthropology, biblical studies, Egyptology and semiotics, to linguistics, cognitive poetics and consciousness studies; from religious studies, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis and literary criticism, to mysticism studies, cognitive psychology, phenomenology and philosophy of mind-it wrests from the Pentateuch an outline of the heretofore undiscovered ancient Israelite mystical-initiatory tradition of the First Temple priests. The book effectively launches a new research area: Pentateuchal esoteric mysticism, akin to a "center" or "organizing principle" discussed in biblical theology. The recovered priestly system is discordant vis-à-vis the much-later rabbinical project. This volume appeals to a diverse academic community, from Biblical and Jewish studies to literary studies, religious studies, anthropology, and consciousness studies.
- About The Author
- Alex S. Kohav teaches at the Department of Philosophy, Metropolitan State University of Denver. He is the editor of two recent anthologies, Mysticism and Meaning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Three Pines Press, 2019) and Mysticism and Experience: Twenty-First Century Approaches (Lexington Books, 2020), and a co-editor of A Paradise of Paradoxes: Finite Infinities, the Hebrew God, and Taboo of Knowledge (in preparation). Dr. Kohav is engaged in the long-term project of developing ancient Israelite philosophy-the foundational Hebraic/Jewish metaphysics, epistemology, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and ethics of early-antiquity Israel. His forthcoming book, Adam, a Kind of Thinker: Freedom Scales as Selves, Worlds, and Thinking Fields (Hebraic Pluri-Dimensional Perspectives) elaborates an ontology of "worlds" accessible to human beings.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780367699413
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Routledge, (27 May 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 440
- Weight
- 640 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 235 x 26 mm
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