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Fragile Finitude
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In Fragile Finitude, the long-awaited follow-up to Sacred Attunement(2008), Fishbane clears new ground for theological experience and its expressions through a novel reinterpretation of the Book of Job. His reinterpretation is based on the traditional four types of Jewish Scriptural exegesis: the contextual plain sense, the rabbinic legal and theological sense, the figural philosophical and spiritual sense, and the symbolic mystical sense. The first focuses on worldly experience, the second on communal forms of life and thought in the rabbinic tradition, the third on personal development, and the fourth on transcendent and cosmic orientations. Through these four modes, Fishbane manages to transform Jewish theology from within, at once reinvigorating a long tradition and moving beyond it. What he offers is nothing short of a way to reorient our lives in relation to the Divine and our fellow humans"--
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