Lexington Books
Pages: 410
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-2499-4 • Paperback • March 2008 • $68.99 • (£53.00)
978-1-4616-3426-3 • eBook • March 2008 • $65.50 • (£50.00)
George Anastaplo, author of numerous books, teaches at the University of Chicago, Loyola University, and Dominican University.
Chapter 1 Table of Contents
Chapter 2 1 On Taking the Bible Seriously Again
Chapter 3 2 On Prophecy and Freedom
Chapter 4 3 On Biblical Thought
Chapter 5 4 Cain and Abel
Chapter 6 5 Rebekah, Isaac, and Jacob
Chapter 7 6 Joseph
Chapter 8 7 Moses in Egypt
Chapter 9 8 Moses at Sinai
Chapter 10 9 The Ten Commandments
Chapter 11 10 David
Chapter 12 11 Solomon
Chapter 13 12 Isaiah
Chapter 14 13 Job
Chapter 15 14 Jesus
Chapter 16 15 The Lord's Prayer
Chapter 17 16 The Nicene Creed
Chapter 18 17 On the Yearning for Personal Immortality
Chapter 19 Appendix A. Reason and Revelation: On Leo Strauss
Chapter 20 Appendix B. Reason and Revelation: On Odysseus and Polyphemos
Chapter 21 Appendix C. On the Status of the Political Order
Chapter 22 Appendix D. On Being and One's Own
Chapter 23 Appendix E. Leo Strauss and Judaism Revisited
Chapter 24 Appendix F. On Beginnings (with Endnotes)
Chapter 25 Appendix G. Shakespeare's Bible
Chapter 26 Appendix H. Countdown to the Millenium: A Look atThe Revelation of St. John the Divine
Chapter 27 Appendix I. John Locke andThe Reasonablenss of Christianity
Chapter 28 Appendix J. The Holocaust and the Divine Ordering of Human Beings
Chapter 29 Appendix K. Yearnings for the Divine and the Natural Animation of Matter
Chapter 30 Endnotes
Chapter 31 Index
George Anastaplo brings some common sense questions and insightful comparisons drawn from classic Greek philosophic and literary works to bear on the most venerable Jewish and Christian text. The result is a set of fruitful inquiries and keen observations that the thoughtful and patient reader will find deeply rewarding.
— Jules Gleicher, Rockford College
Anastaplo sees things that other people just do not see. The detail that does not seem to fit becomes in his hands the key to understanding. Surely no other law professor could have written these explorations of the Bible. He has reflected deeply both on the text of the Bible and on the relation of philosophy to revelation. The reader will be challenged, charmed, reassured, and enlightened.
— Christopher Colmo, Dominican University
The Bible: Respectful Readings makes readers aware of both the questions addressed and the relevant evidence that should be assessed within the Bible....'[Anastaplo] has reflected deeply both on the text of the Bible and on the relation of philosophy to revelation. The reader will be challeged, charmed, reassured and enlightened.'
— The Greek Star
Anastaplo's The Bible: Respectful Readings is a calm, eminently reasonable, and ingenious exploration of biblical thought, and what the Hebrew and Greek Bibles have to tell us about ourselves here and now as well as in the past. Interesting comparisons with Shakespeare, classical poetry, Machiavelli, American thinkers, and others never fail to be illuminating. The emphasis is on the Bible's moral focus: for example, the story of Cain and Abel 'points up how critical one's standing before God can be for the human being'; but God's questions, first to Adam and Eve, and then to Cain, 'were designed . . . to make . . . [them] face up to what they had done and what they had become.'
— Laurence Berns, St. John's College