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Eschatology and the Technological Future (2014)
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Burdett, M. S. (2015). Eschatology and the Technological Future. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739397

The rapid advancement of technology has led to an explosion of speculative theories about what the future of humankind may look like. These "technological futurisms" have arisen from significant advances in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology... Read More about Eschatology and the Technological Future.

Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion (2014)
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Crouch, C. (2014). Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion. Atlanta, Georgia: SBL Press

Crouch focuses on Deuteronomy’s subversive intent, asking what would be required in order for Deuteronomy to successfully subvert either a specific Assyrian source or Assyrian ideology more generally. The book reconsiders the nature of the relationsh... Read More about Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion.

Jewish cryptotheologies of late modernity: philosophical marranos (2014)
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BIELIK-ROBSON, A. (2014). Jewish cryptotheologies of late modernity: philosophical marranos. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315774466

This book aims to interpret ‘Jewish Philosophy’ in terms of the Marrano phenomenon: as a conscious clinamen of philosophical forms used in order to convey a ‘secret message’ which cannot find an open articulation. The Marrano phenomenon is employe... Read More about Jewish cryptotheologies of late modernity: philosophical marranos.

The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy (2014)
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Crouch, C. (2014). The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers

In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exilic... Read More about The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy.

Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence (2014)
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Bielik-Robson, A., Goetschel, W., Fagenblat, M., Cohen-Levinas, D., Leder, A., Lipszyc, A., …Sherwood, Y. (2014). A. Bielik-Robson, & A. Lipszyc (Eds.). Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315816760

The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself in manifold allusions and influences – on the other hand, difficult to defin... Read More about Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence.