What is a God?: Philosophical Perspectives on Divine Essence in the Hebrew Bible

Description: What is a God? by Dr Jaco Gericke In this book Jaco Gericke is concerned with different ways of approaching the question of what, according to the Hebrew Bible, a god was assumed to be. As a supplement to the tradition of predominantly linguistic, historical, literary, comparative, social-scientific and related ways of looking at the research problem, Gericke offers a variety of experimental philosophical perspectives that aim to take a step back from the scholarly discussion as it has unfolded hitherto in order to provide a new type of worry when looking at the riddle of what the biblical texts assumed made a god divine.Consisting of a brief history of philosophical interpretations of the concepts of whatness and essence from Socrates to Derrida, the relevant ideas are adapted and reapplied to look at some interesting metaphysical oddities arising from generic uses of elohim/el/eloah as common noun in the Hebrew Bible. As such the study seeks to be a prolegomenon to all future research in that, instead of answering the question regarding a supposed nature of divinity, it aims to complicate it beyond expectation. In this way a case is made for a more nuanced and indeterminate manner of constructing the problem of what it meant to call something a god. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jaco Gericke is Associate Research Professor of Theology and Philosophy at North-West University, South Africa. Table of Contents ForewordAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Introduction: What is a God?2. Whatness and a Socratic Definition of God-ness via Common Properties3. Whatness and a Platonist Perspective on God-ness as Form/Universal4. Whatness and Aristotelian Essentialism about a God as Secondary Substance5. Whatness and a Porphyrian Tree of God as Species/Genus6. Whatness and a Boethian Distinction between Essence/Existence in a God7. Whatness and an Avicennian View on the Quiddity of a God8. Whatness and Abelardian Nominalism about the Status of a God9. Whatness and a Thomistic Perspective on the Complexity of a God10. Whatness and a Scotian Interpretation of a Gods Haecceity11. Whatness and a Cartesian Notion of a Gods Principle Attribute12. Whatness and Lockean Anti-Essentialism about God as Sortal13. Whatness and Leibnizian Superessentialism about Necessity in a God14. Whatness and a Kantian Concept of a God as Thing-in-Itself15. Whatness and a Hegelian View of the Essence of a God in Appearances16. Whatness and a Nietzschean Interpretation of a God as Will-to-Power17. Whatness and Wittgensteinian Family Resemblances among the God18. Whatness and a Husserlian Reduction of a Gods Essence as Intentional Object19. Whatness and a Heideggerian View of what is Ownmost in a God Identity over Time20. Whatness and a Sartrean Idea of Existence preceding Essence in a God21. Whatness and a Quinean Denial of Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Being a God22. Whatness and the Popperian Essentialist Fallacy in Defining a God23. Whatness and Kripkean Modal Neo-Essentialism about God as Rigid Designator24. Whatness and Derridian Differential Ontology for a God beyond Anti-/Essentialism25. Summary and ConclusionsBibliographyIndex of Biblical ReferencesIndex of Classical SourcesIndex of SubjectsIndex of Authors Review Gerickes survey is masterly … [his] handling of a wide range of difficult material is to be commended, as is his integration of it in relation to a single theme. * Reviews in Religion & Theology *The book, which is as unusual as it is ingenious, opens up the way for Old Testament writers to develop a precise language in view of the Old Testament understanding of God. * Zeitschrift fÜr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (Bloomsbury Translation) * Promotional An in-depth examination of what Elohim (God) means in the Hebrew Bible, with reference to a wide range of philosophers and philosophical perspectives. Review Quote The book, which is as unusual as it is ingenious, opens up the way for Old Testament writers to develop a precise language in view of the Old Testament understanding of God. Promotional "Headline" An in-depth examination of what Elohim (God) means in the Hebrew Bible, with reference to a wide range of philosophers and philosophical perspectives. Feature Examines Godness and what exactly we believe God to be composed of with reference to over 20 philosophical structures Details ISBN0567683591 Pages 176 ISBN-10 0567683591 ISBN-13 9780567683595 Format Paperback Imprint T.& T.Clark Ltd Subtitle Philosophical Perspectives on Divine Essence in the Hebrew Bible Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 231 Media Book Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-07-26 Series Criminal Practice Series Short Title What Is a God? Language English Author Dr Jaco Gericke UK Release Date 2018-07-26 NZ Release Date 2018-07-26 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2018-07-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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