“Monotheism” and the Hebrew Bible

Ballentine, Debra Scoggins

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“…In Judaism, throughout history from ancient to modern times, God has been conceived in a variety of ways. Traditionally, Judaism holds that Hashem – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the national god of the Israelites – delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, and gave them the Law of Moses at Mount Sinai as described in the Torah (Ballentine, 2022). Jews believe in a monotheistic conception of God (God is the only one), which is both transcendent (wholly independent of, and removed from, the material universe) and immanent (involved in the material universe) (Lebens, 2020).…”

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Soul, body and mental health – applying Rabbi Moshe de Maimon’s philosophy to the contemporary phenomenon of drug addiction

Milshteyn

2024

Hist Psychiatry

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In modern psychiatry, drug addiction is considered as mainly a mental disorder and a brain disease problem, of complex aetiology. In addition, drug addiction has been characterized as a loss of willpower or akrasia, and even a sin. In this essay, I analyse Maimonides’ (Rambam’s) treatises More Ha-Nevuchim ( Guide for the Perplexed) and Shemona Perakim ( The Eight Chapters). He asserts that the soul is one, but has many different faculties (functions) and is intrinsically linked to the body. I argue that drug addiction is a psychological, social-moral deviance, as well as straying from God’s path. Addiction is a disorder of the soul and body. Consequently, healing should include social-moral guidelines as well as physical/bodily health.

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Soul, body and mental health – applying Rabbi Moshe de Maimon’s philosophy to the contemporary phenomenon of drug addiction

Milshteyn

2024

Hist Psychiatry

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“Without Contraries Is No Progression”: William Blake’s Monistic Understanding of Theodicy as Reflected in His Engravings of the Book of Job

Evans

2023

JSEM

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In the book of Job, Job is initially described as “perfect and upright,” yet Yahweh allows Satan to inflict terrible suffering on him. From their Deuteronomistic orientation, Job’s comforters insist that Job must have sinned and deserves punishment. If Job is truly innocent, the quandary of theodicy arises because Yahwistic monism views Yahweh as the one and only loving, all powerful God of justice and mercy. However, in his exegesis in his set of engravings of the book, the nineteenth-century poet and artist William Blake viewed Job not as “perfect and upright,” but as wrapped in a self-absorbed bubble of false piety, dedicated to traditional memory and habit. This article selects six of Blake’s engravings and by means of a literary-psychological methodological approach demonstrates how Blake anticipated certain modern exegetical methods in his aim to “justify the ways of God to man.” He claimed the right to use his own imaginative response to the text, rather than rely on the meaning handed down by tradition and memory. The initial divide between heaven and earth is bridged when the youthful Elihu rejects their traditional wisdom, and brings Job to the point where he can experience God as an immanent divine presence. The advance of science, for instance, Darwin’s theory of the origin of the species, and subsequent research in a variety of disciplines has resulted in a new understanding of the inevitability of suffering and evil, and goes some way to validate Blake’s monistic insistence that “without contraries is no progression.”

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Theorizing Myth to Facilitate Comparison and Re-Description in Biblical Studies

Ballentine

2022

Religions

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This article promotes the theorizing of myth in ways that facilitate comparison and re-description of data within Biblical Studies. After addressing background categorical issues within Religious Studies and Biblical Studies, I chart the old model of contrasting Bible as Truth with myth, including Eusebius’s antique articulation as well as Romantic notions of myth. Challenging outmoded theories, I identify scholarship that works towards rectification of the category myth, with the aim of bolstering scholarly conversations beyond disciplinary boundaries. Finally, the article suggests rectification of multiple Biblical Studies categories related to myth.

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“Monotheism” and the Hebrew Bible

Cited by 4 publications

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Soul, body and mental health – applying Rabbi Moshe de Maimon’s philosophy to the contemporary phenomenon of drug addiction

Soul, body and mental health – applying Rabbi Moshe de Maimon’s philosophy to the contemporary phenomenon of drug addiction

“Without Contraries Is No Progression”: William Blake’s Monistic Understanding of Theodicy as Reflected in His Engravings of the Book of Job

Theorizing Myth to Facilitate Comparison and Re-Description in Biblical Studies

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