{"product_id":"persons-and-other-things-exploring-the-philosophy-of-the-hebrew-bible-hardback-9781487508982","title":"Persons and Other Things; Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible (Hardback) 9781487508982","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePersons and Other Things\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eExploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Glouberman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487508982\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 August 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The book is full of engaging witticisms. There is hardly a paragraph in which there is not a pun or a play on words. And the book is packed with off-hand references to world literature, mythology, history, and philosophy, many of them beyond the ken of most readers. I found the style to be both challenging and at times worthy of a good laugh out loud.\" - Jerome Gellman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (\u003cem\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God\u0026amp;#x2019;s name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications of the Bible\u0026amp;#x2019;s core anthropological teachings. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePersons and Other Things\u003c\/em\u003e Mark Glouberman explores the Bible\u0026amp;#x2019;s philosophy, roughing out in the course of a defence of it how men and women who see themselves in the biblical portrayal (as he argues that most of us do once the \"religious\" glare is reduced) are committed to conduct their personal affairs, arrange their social ties, and act in the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePersons and Other Things\u003c\/em\u003e is also the author\u0026amp;#x2019;s testament about the practice of philosophy. Glouberman sets out the lessons he has acquired as a lifelong learner about thinking philosophically, about writing philosophy, and about philosophers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreamble … with a loosened tie\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrinciples\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Bibleism and Judaism: Four and a Half Dogmas of Bible Interpretation\u003cbr\u003e2. Godless the Bible\u0026amp;#x2019;s Philosophy Isn\u0026amp;#x2019;t\u003cbr\u003e3. \"Jew\" as a Category Label: Philosophy on the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e4. Hero, Israel: Troy and the Torah\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePassages\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. \"On one leg\": The Stability of Monotheism\u003cbr\u003e6. \"Where were you?\": The Logic of the Book of Job\u003cbr\u003e7. \"Let them have dominion\": The Bible and the Natural World\u003cbr\u003e8. \"Because … God rested\": Philosophy on the Sabbath Day\u003cbr\u003e9. \"In the day that you shall eat\": Do and Die\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeople\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Eat, Pray, Smoke: Halakhah for the Goldsteins and the Goyim\u003cbr\u003e11. God Loves You, Christopher Hitchens\u003cbr\u003e12. Jerry and Jewry: Ethnicity and Humanity in G.A. Cohen\u003cbr\u003e13. \"O God, O Montreal!\": Charles Taylor and Turbo-Charged Humanism\u003cbr\u003e14. A Plea for Ontology: Thomas Nagel\u0026amp;#x2019;s Mind and Cosmos\u003cbr\u003e15. Phenomenology and Analysis: A Bridge over the Waters\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The Acts of the Philosophers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinale: \"The rest is the commentary thereof\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595491701016,"sku":"9781487508982","price":45.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/persons-and-other-things-exploring-the-philosophy-of-the-hebrew-bible-hardback-9781487508982","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}