Book contents
- Tanakh Epistemology
- Tanakh Epistemology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Reading Epistemology in the Tanakh
- 2 Unveiling Knowledge/Power
- 3 Apokalypto, Revelation, Imperium
- 4 A Revelatory Observable
- 5 Sees Hears Knows
- 6 Qoheleth’s Critique of Wisdom, Knowledge, and Critical Thought
- 7 Tanakh Epistemology in Modernity
- 8 Tanakh Epistemology and Postmodernism
- 9 Synthesis
- 10 Consequences
- Conclusion
- References
- Tanakh References
- Index
7 - Tanakh Epistemology in Modernity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2020
- Tanakh Epistemology
- Tanakh Epistemology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Reading Epistemology in the Tanakh
- 2 Unveiling Knowledge/Power
- 3 Apokalypto, Revelation, Imperium
- 4 A Revelatory Observable
- 5 Sees Hears Knows
- 6 Qoheleth’s Critique of Wisdom, Knowledge, and Critical Thought
- 7 Tanakh Epistemology in Modernity
- 8 Tanakh Epistemology and Postmodernism
- 9 Synthesis
- 10 Consequences
- Conclusion
- References
- Tanakh References
- Index
Summary
In the modern transformation of epistemology, premodern forms of knowledge considered revelatory and Hebrew are (notwithstanding Qoheleth) exchanged for those deemed philosophical and Greek. A pivotal figure in this metamorphosis is the Cartesian rationalist Baruch Spinoza, who early in modernity uses philosophical epistemology to critique revelatory knowledge in the Tanakh. Influence of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus is such that no later work revisits Spinoza’s arguments concerning the Tanakh, which profoundly influence modern thought. An examination of Tanakh epistemology in modernity should therefore begin with Spinoza – and it will continue in this chapter with Hume’s “On Miracles” and Kant’s Dreams of a Spirit-Seer.
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- Tanakh EpistemologyKnowledge and Power, Religious and Secular, pp. 191 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020