Author: | Jeffrey A. Smith, Harvey Flaumenhaft, Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Alan Rubenstein, William Mullen, Kate Havard, Gisela Berns, Paul Ludwig, Robert Sacks, Adam Schulman, Margaret Kirby, Pamela Kraus, Paul T. Wilford, Louis Petrich, Eva Brann, Jan H. Blits, Ronna Burger, Wilfred M. McClay, Leon R. Kass | ISBN: | 9781498551434 |
Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | October 13, 2017 |
Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
Author: | Jeffrey A. Smith, Harvey Flaumenhaft, Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Alan Rubenstein, William Mullen, Kate Havard, Gisela Berns, Paul Ludwig, Robert Sacks, Adam Schulman, Margaret Kirby, Pamela Kraus, Paul T. Wilford, Louis Petrich, Eva Brann, Jan H. Blits, Ronna Burger, Wilfred M. McClay, Leon R. Kass |
ISBN: | 9781498551434 |
Publisher: | Lexington Books |
Publication: | October 13, 2017 |
Imprint: | Lexington Books |
Language: | English |
This collection of essays aims to explore fundamental questions about God, human nature, and political life through careful readings of the Greek poets, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. The volume investigates the abiding tension between the Hebraic and the Hellenic dimensions of the Western soul through an examination of profound literary, philosophic, and theological reflections on topics as various as friendship, marriage, tyranny, sovereignty, sin, forgiveness, comedy, tragedy, and contemplation. Offered in honor of Mera J. Flaumenhaft, the essays reflect the intellectual rigor, moral seriousness, and disciplined imagination of her scholarship and teaching.
This collection of essays aims to explore fundamental questions about God, human nature, and political life through careful readings of the Greek poets, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. The volume investigates the abiding tension between the Hebraic and the Hellenic dimensions of the Western soul through an examination of profound literary, philosophic, and theological reflections on topics as various as friendship, marriage, tyranny, sovereignty, sin, forgiveness, comedy, tragedy, and contemplation. Offered in honor of Mera J. Flaumenhaft, the essays reflect the intellectual rigor, moral seriousness, and disciplined imagination of her scholarship and teaching.