Pious Irreverence by Dov Weiss
Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss has written the first scholarly study of the premodern roots of this distinctively Jewish theology of protest, examining its origins and development in the rabbinic age (70 CE-800 CE).-
Border Lines
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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
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In the Eye of the Animal
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Scripture and Tradition
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The Iranian Talmud
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Narrating the Law
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Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority
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Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men
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The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis
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Specters of Paul
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Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 1
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Monastic Bodies
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Writing and Holiness
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Between Christ and Caliph
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The Sex Lives of Saints
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A Common Justice
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Rebuilding the House of Israel
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Christ Circumcised
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Liturgical Subjects
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The Fathers Refounded
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Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom
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Saving Shame
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The Apocalypse of Empire
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Scripture As Logos
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Punishment and Freedom
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Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity
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Zayd
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Sefer Yesirah and Its Contexts
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Thorns in the Flesh
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Spectacles of Empire
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Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World
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Demonic Desires
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The Death of a Prophet
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Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity
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Imitations of Infinity
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Envisioning Islam
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Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2
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The Godman and the Sea
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The Corporeal Imagination
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Apocalypse of the Alien God
"The question of God's injustice is eternalIn bringing us such a trove of sources and in laying them out in an ordered form, Weiss has provided not only a scholarly but also a theological gift." * Reviews in Religion & Theology *
"Pious Irreverence is a well-conceived and highly original work that asks to what extent and in what way the human may confront divinity, considering the evident imperfections in divinely created reality. Dov Weiss makes a major contribution to the study of rabbinic literature and demonstrates remarkably wide expertise also in early Christian and Patristic texts, contemporary studies of Judaism and Christianity, and literary theory." * Marc Bregman, University of North Carolina, Greensboro *
"In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss makes numerous important contributions: He traces the existence of an antiprotest tradition in rabbinic Judaism from the tannaitic period to the amoraic; he identifies fascinating differences between the ways Jewish and Christian antiprotestors quarantine biblical protests; and most importantly, he underscores the crucial role of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu literature in radicalizing the protest tradition." * Tzvi Novick, University of Notre Dame *
"Pious Irreverence is a well-conceived and highly original work that asks to what extent and in what way the human may confront divinity, considering the evident imperfections in divinely created reality. Dov Weiss makes a major contribution to the study of rabbinic literature and demonstrates remarkably wide expertise also in early Christian and Patristic texts, contemporary studies of Judaism and Christianity, and literary theory." * Marc Bregman, University of North Carolina, Greensboro *
"In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss makes numerous important contributions: He traces the existence of an antiprotest tradition in rabbinic Judaism from the tannaitic period to the amoraic; he identifies fascinating differences between the ways Jewish and Christian antiprotestors quarantine biblical protests; and most importantly, he underscores the crucial role of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu literature in radicalizing the protest tradition." * Tzvi Novick, University of Notre Dame *
Dov Weiss teaches religion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812248357 |
| ISBN 10 | 081224835X |
| Title | Pious Irreverence |
| Author | Dov Weiss |
| Series | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2016-08-23 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award for scholarship 2021 |
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