Winged Words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Life of Quotation: 35 (Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 35) - Hardcover

Sax, Benjamin E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004680187 ISBN 13: 9789004680180

Publisher: Brill, 2023

Synopsis

This is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. Weaving back and forth from Benjamin to Rosenzweig, the book searches for the recovery of concealed and lost meaning in the community of letters, sacred scripture, the collecting of books, storytelling, and the life of liturgy. It also explores how the legacy of Goethe can be used to develop new strata of religious and Jewish thought. We learn how quotation is the binding tissue that links language and thought, modernity and tradition, religion and secularism as a way of being in the world.

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About the Author

Benjamin E. Sax is the Jewish Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, Jewish Studies in Baltimore. He is an experienced professor, university administrator, scholar, award-winning teacher, public speaker, and practitioner and facilitator of interreligious dialogue. Before arriving at the ICJS, Sax was director of the Malcolm and Diane Rosenberg Program in Judaic Studies and the founding faculty principal at the West Ambler Johnston Residential College at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Sax holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (BA, Social Thought and Political Economy), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA, Religious Studies), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., History of Judaism). He has published on topics relating to Jewish philosophy, German-Jewish history and culture, Jewish-Christian relations, and interreligious dialogue.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004680187
• ISBN 13: 9789004680180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344