Jon D Levenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3831072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon D Levenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon D |
| FAMILY NAME | Levenson |
| SIGNATURE | LEVENSON J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Divine Revelation and Historical Criticism: A Review Essay Jerome Yehuda Gellman
Jerome Yehuda Gellman’s new book is a rigorous philosophical approach to the vexing question of the historicity of the Torah, authored by a committed Orthodox Jew who wishes to uphold belief in revelation and providence. Its intended readership consists of Jews who, like himself, have traditional faith but wish to face with honesty and without special pleading the mounting empirical evidence against the accuracy of the Torah narrative as objectiv…
Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
A Gentleman and a Scholar—and an Editor Par Excellence
That the editorship of the Harvard Theological Review should take two individuals to succeed Prof. Bovon will come as no surprise to those who know him. A scholar's scholar, he has published a large number of learned and acclaimed studies. These studies include his four-volume commentary on the Gospel according to Luke, which has now appeared in four languages with a fifth to follow, and his groundbreaking studies on the apocryphal literature of …
Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture
The Agenda of Dabru Emet
Religious Affirmation and Historical Criticism in Heschel's Biblical Interpretation
Not least among the bittersweet gifts of modernity to the Jews is the complication of dealing with the Bible both as sacred scripture and as a document subject to the same canons of inquiry as any other historical, or putatively historical, record. The problem goes far beyond the familiar one posed by narratives that ancient historians find doubtful or quite impossible. For historical critical research into the Tanakh (as into all other scripture…
Is Brueggemann Really a Pluralist
One characteristic of Walter Brueggemann's recently published Theology of the Old Testament that distinguishes it from comparable studies is its author's explicit commitment to hermeneutical pluralism. Whereas the classic works of biblical theology located the enterprise within a univocally Christian framework, Brueggemann's massive and learned volume proposes a “contextual shift from hegemonic interpretation ... toward a pluralistic interpretive…
The Ethos of the Cosmos: The Genesis of Moral Imagination in the Bible
Recent studies of the biblical story of creation try to uncover its roots in ancient Near Eastern myths or its compatibility with modern science and ecology. In contrast, this work by William Brown investigates how the various pictures of creation found in Scripture helped shape the ancient faith community's moral character. Bridging the fields of biblical studies and ethics, this interdisciplinary work demonstrates how certain creation tradition…
Abraham Among Jews, Christians, and Muslims: Monotheism, Exegesis, and Religious Diversity
The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism: Jews and Christians in Biblical Studies
Writing from a Jewish perspective, Jon Levenson reviews many often neglected theoretical questions. He focuses on the relationship between two interpretive communities--the community of scholars who are committed to the historical-critical method of biblical interpretation and the community responsible for the canonization and preservation of the Bible
Ethnicity and the Bible
Contemporary social theory has been much concerned with the re-assertion of ethnic identities in both Western and non-Western politics. This international collection of twenty-one essays contributes to the wider conversation by examining the construction and contestation of ethnic identities both within the Bible itself and in biblical interpretation. An introductory essay brings into focus the main themes of the book - ethnocentrism, indigenity,…
Esther in Medieval Garb: Jewish Interpretation of the Book of Esther in the Middle Ages
The Redaction of the Books of Esther: On Reading Composite Texts . Michael V. Fox
The Hermeneutical Defense of Buber's Hasidism: A Critique and Counterstatement
Journal Article THE HERMENEUTICAL DEFENSE OF BUBER'S HASIDISM: A CRITIQUE AND COUNTERSTATEMENT Get access Jon D. Levenson Jon D. Levenson HARVARD UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 3, October 1991, Pages 297–320, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.3.297 Published: 01 October 1991
Must We Accept the Other's Self-Understanding?Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Jewish Justification. David Novak
Biblical Interpretation. Robert Morgan , John Barton
The Eighth Principle of Judaism and the Literary Simultaneity of Scripture
Justice and History in the Old Testament: The Evolution of Divine Retribution in the Historiographies of the Wilderness Generation . Richard Adamiak
Die Toledotformel und die literarische Struktur der priesterlichen Erweiterungsschicht im Pentateuch . Sven Tengström
Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives. Phyllis Trible
The Temple and the World
Biblical Semantic Logic: A Preliminary Analysis. Arthur Gibson
The Theologies of Commandment in Biblical Israel
Critical scholarship on the Hebrew Bible a hundred years ago held a much lower estimation of the role of law in the religion of ancient Israel and of the value of biblical law than do scholars today. Julius Wellhausen, for example, whose work was the most influential of the nineteeth century, maintained that in its creative period, Israel had no law, but only “usage and tradition” which “were looked on to a large extent as the institution of the …
Who Inserted the Book of the Torah
Over a decade ago, Hans Walter Wolff observed that there is a bracket around the Deuteronomic Corpus (Dtn) which includes parts of Deuteronomy 4 and Deuteronomy 28-30. The elements of the frame which he isolated and discussed in some detail are Deut 4:29-31 and Deut 30:1-10. He saw the former passage as a late addition to the Moses speech in Deut 4:25-28, regarding the change from plural to singular address as a decisive indication of authorial d…
The Spindle Whorl Inscription from Chatal Hüyük: A Forgery
The Temple and the World
Religious Affirmation and Historical Criticism in Heschel's Biblical Interpretation
Not least among the bittersweet gifts of modernity to the Jews is the complication of dealing with the Bible both as sacred scripture and as a document subject to the same canons of inquiry as any other historical, or putatively historical, record. The problem goes far beyond the familiar one posed by narratives that ancient historians find doubtful or quite impossible. For historical critical research into the Tanakh (as into all other scripture…
The Hermeneutical Defense of Buber's Hasidism: A Critique and Counterstatement
Journal Article THE HERMENEUTICAL DEFENSE OF BUBER'S HASIDISM: A CRITIQUE AND COUNTERSTATEMENT Get access Jon D. Levenson Jon D. Levenson HARVARD UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 3, October 1991, Pages 297–320, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.3.297 Published: 01 October 1991
The Grundworte of Pier Delle Vigne
The Spindle Whorl Inscription from Chatal Hüyük: A Forgery
Who Inserted the Book of the Torah
Over a decade ago, Hans Walter Wolff observed that there is a bracket around the Deuteronomic Corpus (Dtn) which includes parts of Deuteronomy 4 and Deuteronomy 28-30. The elements of the frame which he isolated and discussed in some detail are Deut 4:29-31 and Deut 30:1-10. He saw the former passage as a late addition to the Moses speech in Deut 4:25-28, regarding the change from plural to singular address as a decisive indication of authorial d…
The Theologies of Commandment in Biblical Israel
Critical scholarship on the Hebrew Bible a hundred years ago held a much lower estimation of the role of law in the religion of ancient Israel and of the value of biblical law than do scholars today. Julius Wellhausen, for example, whose work was the most influential of the nineteeth century, maintained that in its creative period, Israel had no law, but only “usage and tradition” which “were looked on to a large extent as the institution of the …
Biblical Semantic Logic: A Preliminary Analysis. Arthur Gibson
The Temple and the World
Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives. Phyllis Trible
Die Toledotformel und die literarische Struktur der priesterlichen Erweiterungsschicht im Pentateuch . Sven Tengström
Justice and History in the Old Testament: The Evolution of Divine Retribution in the Historiographies of the Wilderness Generation . Richard Adamiak
The Eighth Principle of Judaism and the Literary Simultaneity of Scripture
Biblical Interpretation. Robert Morgan , John Barton
The Hermeneutical Defense of Buber's Hasidism: A Critique and Counterstatement
Journal Article THE HERMENEUTICAL DEFENSE OF BUBER'S HASIDISM: A CRITIQUE AND COUNTERSTATEMENT Get access Jon D. Levenson Jon D. Levenson HARVARD UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 3, October 1991, Pages 297–320, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.3.297 Published: 01 October 1991
Must We Accept the Other's Self-Understanding?Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Jewish Justification. David Novak
The Redaction of the Books of Esther: On Reading Composite Texts . Michael V. Fox
Esther in Medieval Garb: Jewish Interpretation of the Book of Esther in the Middle Ages
Ethnicity and the Bible
Contemporary social theory has been much concerned with the re-assertion of ethnic identities in both Western and non-Western politics. This international collection of twenty-one essays contributes to the wider conversation by examining the construction and contestation of ethnic identities both within the Bible itself and in biblical interpretation. An introductory essay brings into focus the main themes of the book - ethnocentrism, indigenity,…
Abraham Among Jews, Christians, and Muslims: Monotheism, Exegesis, and Religious Diversity
The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism: Jews and Christians in Biblical Studies
Writing from a Jewish perspective, Jon Levenson reviews many often neglected theoretical questions. He focuses on the relationship between two interpretive communities--the community of scholars who are committed to the historical-critical method of biblical interpretation and the community responsible for the canonization and preservation of the Bible
Is Brueggemann Really a Pluralist
One characteristic of Walter Brueggemann's recently published Theology of the Old Testament that distinguishes it from comparable studies is its author's explicit commitment to hermeneutical pluralism. Whereas the classic works of biblical theology located the enterprise within a univocally Christian framework, Brueggemann's massive and learned volume proposes a “contextual shift from hegemonic interpretation ... toward a pluralistic interpretive…
The Ethos of the Cosmos: The Genesis of Moral Imagination in the Bible
Recent studies of the biblical story of creation try to uncover its roots in ancient Near Eastern myths or its compatibility with modern science and ecology. In contrast, this work by William Brown investigates how the various pictures of creation found in Scripture helped shape the ancient faith community's moral character. Bridging the fields of biblical studies and ethics, this interdisciplinary work demonstrates how certain creation tradition…
Religious Affirmation and Historical Criticism in Heschel's Biblical Interpretation
Not least among the bittersweet gifts of modernity to the Jews is the complication of dealing with the Bible both as sacred scripture and as a document subject to the same canons of inquiry as any other historical, or putatively historical, record. The problem goes far beyond the familiar one posed by narratives that ancient historians find doubtful or quite impossible. For historical critical research into the Tanakh (as into all other scripture…
The Agenda of Dabru Emet
Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture
A Gentleman and a Scholar—and an Editor Par Excellence
That the editorship of the Harvard Theological Review should take two individuals to succeed Prof. Bovon will come as no surprise to those who know him. A scholar's scholar, he has published a large number of learned and acclaimed studies. These studies include his four-volume commentary on the Gospel according to Luke, which has now appeared in four languages with a fifth to follow, and his groundbreaking studies on the apocryphal literature of …
Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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