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14 - Modern Philosophical Receptions of Genesis

from Part IV - Reception History of Genesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

By
Frederick D. Aquino
Edited by
Bill T. Arnold
Bill T. Arnold
Affiliation:
Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky
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Summary

The book of Genesis is replete with philosophical issues. Some include the nature of the human condition (e.g., the propensity for evil and goodness), freedom, contingency and necessity, ecological responsibility, and the contours of human interaction and flourishing.1 However, a perennial philosophical issue focuses on the relationship between divine commands and ethical evaluation. An important and related question is whether what God says and does is fitting if judged by a more developed concept of the divine nature. What, for example, is befitting of the divine? What is involved in determining whether the actions of the divine are befitting?

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The Cambridge Companion to Genesis , pp. 303 - 321
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Capek, Felip. “A Philosophical Discourse on Genesis 22-Akedah Reflected by Kant, Fichte, and Schelling.” CV 52.3 (2010): 217–27.Google Scholar
Fleischacker, Samuel. The Good and the Good Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.Google Scholar
Gericke, Jaco. The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.Google Scholar
Hazony, Yoram. The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Kant, Immanuel, The Conflict of the Faculties. Translated by Mary J. Gregor. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.Google Scholar
Kass, Leon R. The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis. New York, NY: Free Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Kierkegaard, Søren. Fear and Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric. Translated by Walter Lowrie. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1941.Google Scholar
Levenson, John. The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Levy, Ze’ev. “On the Aquedah in Modern Philosophy.” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 15.1 (2007): 85–108.Google Scholar
Stump, Eleonore. Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weiss, Shira. Ethical Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible: Philosophical Analysis of Scriptural Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Adams, Robert Merrihew. Finite and Infinite Goods. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.Google Scholar
Capek, Felip. “A Philosophical Discourse on Genesis 22-Akedah Reflected by Kant, Fichte, and Schelling.” CV 52.3 (2010): 217–27.Google Scholar
Fleischacker, Samuel. The Good and the Good Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.Google Scholar
Gericke, Jaco. The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.Google Scholar
Hazony, Yoram. The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Kant, Immanuel, The Conflict of the Faculties. Translated by Mary J. Gregor. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.Google Scholar
Kass, Leon R. The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis. New York, NY: Free Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Kierkegaard, Søren. Fear and Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric. Translated by Walter Lowrie. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1941.Google Scholar
Levenson, John. The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Levy, Ze’ev. “On the Aquedah in Modern Philosophy.” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 15.1 (2007): 85–108.Google Scholar
Stump, Eleonore. Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weiss, Shira. Ethical Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible: Philosophical Analysis of Scriptural Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.Google Scholar

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