Rosenzeig's Bible Reinventing Scripture for Jeish Modernity [Paperback]

Mara Benjamin argues that Rosenzweig's reinvention of scripture illuminates the complex interactions between modern readers and ancient sacred texts.Mara Benjamin argues that Franz Rosenzweig reinvented scripture  both the Bible itself and the very notion of a scriptural text  in order to invigorate Jewish intellectual and social life. The distinctly modern key of this undertaking ultimately reinforced the foundations of German-Jewish post-Enlightenment liberal thought. Rosenzweigs Bible illuminates the complex interactions that arise when modern readers engage the sacred texts of ancient religious traditions.Mara Benjamin argues that Franz Rosenzweig reinvented scripture  both the Bible itself and the very notion of a scriptural text  in order to invigorate Jewish intellectual and social life. The distinctly modern key of this undertaking ultimately reinforced the foundations of German-Jewish post-Enlightenment liberal thought. Rosenzweigs Bible illuminates the complex interactions that arise when modern readers engage the sacred texts of ancient religious traditions.Rosenzweigs Bible examines the high stakes, both theological and political, of Franz Rosenzweigs attempt to revivify the Hebrew Bible and use it as the basis for a Jewish textual identity. Mara Benjamins innovative reading of The Star of Redemption places Rosenzweigs best-known work at the beginning of an intellectual trajectory that culminated in a monumental translation of the Bible, thus overturning fundamental assumptions that have long guided the appraisal of this titan of modern Jewish thought. She argues that Rosenzweigs response to modernity was paradoxical: he challenged his readers to encounter the biblical text as revelation, reinventing scripture  both the Bible itself and the very notion of a scriptural text  in order to invigorate Jewish intellectual and social life, but did so in a distinctly modern key, ultimately reinforcing the foundations of German-Jewish post-Enlightenml3Ê