God in Jewish Thinking: Between Incompleteness and Perfection

• Authors: Ronen Shoshana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the concept or the image of God in the Hebrew Bible and the various understandings and interpretations of it by Jewish thinkers through generations. The biblical text, full of contradictions and anthropomorphic assertions about God, was a source of discomfort for Jewish philosophers and theologians. Therefore, the sublima-tion and distillation of the text was necessary, and it was done by use of different her-meneutical methods. The article deals with various attributes of the biblical God, and presents different theological and philosophical interpretations of that issue by major Jewish thinkers.

Keywords

EN

God; Hebrew Bible; anthropomorphism; pathos; omnipotence; omni-presence; freedom of the will; Maimonides; Heschel; Leibowitz

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 231-251

Contributors

author

Ronen Shoshana

• University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland