John W Mcginley: 7 books
The Forbidden Relations and the Early Tannaim
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Is there an idiosyncratically Jewish hermeneutic? Did such ever obtain in Jewish history? Is there an idiosyncratically Jewish theology? Did such ever obtain in Jewish history? Did the two ever obtain at once and together in Jewish history? The answer to all of these questions is: Yes.
Come...
The Dreadful Symmetry of the Good
A Sustained Meditation, in and by Writing, on "The Good" Grounded in the Author's Deciphering of Plato's Final Teaching on "The Good"
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Yes, thats right. The writings of Plato do NOT all fit together in harmony, irrespective of the question of chronological development. To be sure, one is just ice skating over the surface of Platonic writings if one does not have a nuanced understanding of the various periods of Platos intellectual...
The Seventh Chamber
A Commentary on "Parmenides" Becomes a Meditation On, at Once, Heraclitean "Diapherein" and Nachmanian "Tsimtsum"
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
THE GOD TRILOGY The Secret Diary of Ben Zoma The Dreadful Symmetry of the Good The Seventh Chamber
El’Azar; Yeshu; and Tma
{More or Less a Novel}
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
I am projecting to my hoped audience of Jews ---and Orthodox Jews in particular--- a very different accounting of Judaism in general; an accounting with emphasis on Scripture, first and foremost. And then there are the more nuanced offerings of portions of our Talmud Bavli produced by those subtle...
The God with Moral Fault
(Perspectives on Jewish Hermeneutics and Theology)
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
In the timeless time of eternity, does God have a pre-history? What was God "before" (so to speak) God became GOD? Was there some terrible mistake involving culpability? If so, how did this God of pre-history handle His mistake?
Availing himself of certain currents found in Scripture...
The Secret Diary of Ben Zoma
Hearsay Heresy/And the Empty Space/Of an Earthenware Vessel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
So. Think about this. Once this foreigner is brought into the House of Israel ((albeit a foreigner who emerged from the House of Israel)) and then comes to rule it, the House of Israel itself ended up becoming, in fact, a collective apostate alienated from its burning living center. In the following...
by John W. McGinley
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Not unlike Rimbaud's "batteau ivre," Judaism drifts further and further away from its life-force and source without which Judaism cannot long endure. This book is a challenge to the true "talmudim" within Jewish Orthodoxy to boldly reclaim for Judaism and reinscribe into Jewish...