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| Titre : | The Paradox of Human Existence : A Commentary on the Book of Jonah |
| Auteurs : | Ze'ev Haim Lifshitz, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Northvale [USA] : Jason Aronson Inc., 1994 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-56821-219-7 |
| Format : | xxv + 270 p. |
| Note générale : | Traduction française. Vocation et destin (2007) |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : |
Prophecy is generally seen as a verbal message from God to man. But the message need not always be verbal — it could be an event that happens to the prophet, an event that represents a basic existential situation in the life of mankind, and, as such, provides the People of Israel with an important lesson they must learn. Such an event raises existential questions in the minds of the people, upsets their complacency, and opens them up to the Divine message. Almost all the biblical prophets have some sort of practical prophecy, among the many verbal ones.
Jonah is different from the other prophets in that his very life was his prophecy. It was, of course, very different from the life of an ordinary man, but it contained the most profound aspects of life, shared by everyone. The central aspect of Jonah’s life is that of failure. He is an antihero who is brought into the world in order to teach mankind how to build from the empty half of the glass, indeed, how to save the world with that empty half. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface: The First Encounter / The Second Encounter / The Humility of the Seaman - The Story of Jonah - Introduction: The Power of Seduction Is a Consequence of the Sin of the Golden Calf - 1. APPROACHES TO THE BIBLICAL STORY: Quality Scale / The Pagan Approach / The Symbolic Approach / The Mythological Approach / The Intellectual Approach / The Jewish Approach. - 2. THE BOOK OF JONAH: Applying Ancient Prophecy to the Modern Age / Jonah the Prophet / The Prophecy / Technicalities. - 3. JONAH AS A SYMBOL: The Question of Incest - 4. ENCOUNTER AT SEA: The Storm / Natural and Human / Fatalism: The Essence of a Primitive Mind / Passive Resistance / The Logic of the Sea Captain / Man, God, and Nature / The Essence of Courtesy / Polytheists and Ornamental Culture / Passivity versus Action / The Moral Dilemma / Morality versus Religion / Instinctive Morality: A Volatile Substance / Lashon Hara / A Radical Jewish Idea / Abraham the Hebrew / Overboard / The Belly of the Fish / Omnipresence / Getting the Message. - 5. CONFRONTATION IN NINEVEH: In the Big City / Teshuvah: Repentance / The Secret of the Continuity of Creation / Repentance Has Different Levels of Quality / Teshuvah in Nineveh / Freedom of Choice: The Basis of Repentance / Freedom of Choice: The Sense of Life of the Qualitative Self / The Connection between Choice and Divine Providence / Discovering Human Initiative / What Could Be Bad? / Words over a Worm / Adam, the Garden, and History / Tragicomedy: A Double Bind / The Third.Source / Quality Overpowers Quantity / Man Absorbs the Divine Power / Individual Divine Quality / Man Becomes an Active Partner of God / An Ordinary Jew / Judaism Imposes a Third Dimension between Object and Subject / Judaism against Simplicity, or It’s Not Simple to Be a Jew / Hut versus Vine - 6. JEWS AND GENTILES: Yom Kippur / Jew and Non-Jew / How, Why, for What? / The Measure of Justice and the Measure of Compassion - 7. THE DUALITY OF EXISTENCE: The Double System / The Meaning of Suffering / The Inner Circle and the Outer Circle - 8. JONAH’S KIKAYON: The Difference between Gentiles and Jews / A Different Concept of Deity / The Individual versus Society - 9. THE THEOLOGICAL ELEMENT - 10. JONAH AND REALITY: A Life without Reality and a Reality without Life / Jonah: The Secret Righteous Man - 11. ELIJAH AND JONAH: Means and Goals 155 - 12. JONAH: TIME AND PLACE: Stage I / Stage II: The Lonely Individual in the Crowd / The Role of the Place in the Existential Feeling / Time and Place: Content and Container. - 13. THE CONCEPT OF DEATH IN JUDAISM - 14. THE INDIVIDUAL WORSHIPING GOD: The Kikayon: A Symbol of Human Existence / The Difference between Fear of God and Fear of Sin: The Kikayon / Fear of God: The Paved Path to Divinity / Achieving Perfection of Character / Self-Preservation and Creativity / Sabbateanism - 15. CHASTENINGS OF LOVE: Man Is Born to Toil / What Caused the Split between the Inner and the Outer Realms? / Self-Awareness Needs Feedback - 16. THE WOMB: The Return to the Jewish Womb / The Womb: A Creationless Garden of Eden / Inside, Outside, and the Sea: Korach and Jonah / The Dynamic Connection between the Inner and the Outer: The Return to the Inner World / The Need for a Connecting Link - 17. INVISIBLE: To See and Not Be Seen / The Double - CONCLUSION: Jonah—The Private Person - Notes - Index |
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