{"product_id":"persons-and-other-things-9781487508982","title":"Persons and Other Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePersons and Other Things looks closely at the Bible as a philosophical work, asking insightful questions about how to interpret the Hebrew Bible, what it means to be Jewish, and how to live a meaningful and moral life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Preamble … with a loosened tie   Principles   1. Bibleism and Judaism: Four and a Half Dogmas of Bible Interpretation 2. Godless the Bible’s Philosophy Isn’t 3. “Jew” as a Category Label: Philosophy on the Holocaust 4. Hero, Israel: Troy and the Torah   Passages   5. “On one leg”: The Stability of Monotheism 6. “Where were you?”: The Logic of the Book of Job 7. “Let them have dominion”: The Bible and the Natural World 8. “Because … God rested”: Philosophy on the Sabbath Day 9. “In the day that you shall eat”: Do and Die   People   10. Eat, Pray, Smoke: Halakhah for the Goldsteins and the Goyim 11. God Loves You, Christopher Hitchens 12. Jerry and Jewry: Ethnicity and Humanity in G.A. Cohen 13. “O God, O Montreal!”: Charles Taylor and Turbo-Charged Humanism 14. A Plea for Ontology: Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos 15. Phenomenology and Analysis: A Bridge over the Waters   Epilogue: The Acts of the Philosophers   Finale: “The rest is the commentary thereof”   Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739688907095,"sku":"9781487508982","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/persons-and-other-things-9781487508982","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}