| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 270 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1 -- Torat Emet: The Torah of Truth -- "The False Pen of the Scribes Has Made It into a Lie" (Jeremiah 8:8): The Truthiness of Scripture -- Truth, Goodness, and the Rabbis -- Can the Torah Still Be a Source of Truth? -- The Torah, Our Ḥavruta: (Re)Constructing Truth in Sacred Text -- Section 2 -- Tefilat Emet: Liturgical Truth -- Truth in Liturgy : When Prayer Doesn't Quite Capture Our Intent -- How Liturgy Tells the Truth -- Section 3 -- Sefat Emet: Telling the Truth |
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A Jewish Ethic of Truth Based on the Responsa of Rabbi Haim David Halevi -- Section 4 -- Emet Umadaʿ: Judaism, Science, and Philosophy -- Science and Truth -- Reason, History, and Politics: Modern Jewish Thought on Truth -- Section 5 -- Eilu ve'eilu: Pluralism and Truth -- In Our Time: Jesuits, Jews, and "Nones" in Ḥavruta -- Diagonal Pluralism: A Short Essay on Truth -- Section 6 -- Lo Ye'uman ki Yesuppar: Truth, Fiction, and Satire -- Truth and Satire in the Bible, Yesterday and Today: Reflections on Hayehudim Ba'im (The Jews Are Coming) |
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Conclusion -- God's Honest Truth: Some Final Literary Thoughts on Truth, Death, and Eternity -- List of Contributors -- Index to Bible and Rabbinic Works -- General Index |
| Summary |
"The authors of this collection, comprising leading scholars, journalists, entertainers, and religious leaders, were asked to examine the idea of truth from a variety of Jewish textual and disciplinary perspectives-biblical, rabbinic, liturgical, scientific, and artistic. The volume's intention is to hold out the hope that deep, thoughtful teaching from some of the world's leading Jewish voices might lead not to deeper understanding not just of Jewish texts, but of the nature and accessibility of truth itself"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Place of publication from CIP data view |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 25, 2023) |
| Subject |
Truth -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Truthfulness and falsehood.
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Truth -- Biblical teaching
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Jewish ethics.
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Truth in literature.
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HISTORY / Jewish
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Jewish ethics.
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Truth -- Biblical teaching.
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Truth in literature.
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Truth -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Truthfulness and falsehood.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zierler, Wendy, editor.
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Garroway, Joshua D., editor.
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| LC no. |
2022007502 |
| ISBN |
9780878202287 |
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0878202285 |
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