Yudit Greenberg

Rollins College, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Faculty Member

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Coastal Carolina University

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South Dakota State University

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Charles University, Prague

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University of Arizona

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Five Colleges at University of Massachussetts

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University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

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University of East London

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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University of Salamanca

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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body

Routledge eBooks, Jan 4, 2023

Reasoning After Revelation

Introductions * What Is Postmodern Jewish Philosophy? Initial Conversation Monologic Definitions ... more Introductions * What Is Postmodern Jewish Philosophy? Initial Conversation Monologic Definitions Dialogic Practices * Commentary Toward a Dialogic Postmodern Jewish Philosophy (Yudit Kornberg Greenberg) Toward a Postmodern Judaism: A Response (Susan E. Shapiro) Listening, to Speak: A Response to Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy (Elliot R. Wolfson) Joining the Narrators: A Philosophy of Talmudic Hermeneutics (Almut Sh. Bruckstein) Trends in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy: Contexts of a Conversation (Edith Wyschogrod)

From Spinoza to Lévinas : hermeneutical, ethical, and political issues in modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy

Peter Lang eBooks, 2009

Page 1. From Spinoza 1 TO Lévinas Hermeneutical, Ethical, and Political Issues in Modern and Cont... more

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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body

Routledge eBooks, Jan 4, 2023

Hindu-Jewish Dialogue: A New Tradition in the Making

V&R unipress eBooks, Apr 29, 2013

Erotic Representations of the Divine

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, Dec 22, 2016

Erotic representations of the divine occupy a pivotal place in religious myths, poetry, liturgy, ... more Erotic representations of the divine occupy a pivotal place in religious myths, poetry, liturgy, and theology. Reading eros as a category of religious love highlights its ubiquitous presence in sacred literary sources; moreover, it renders the nexus of erotic love and the divine critical to comprehending religiosity as an immanent and embodied phenomenon, rather than as an abstract idea. As an embodied phenomenon, religious love is subject to an investigation of topics such as gender and sexuality, and its multiple cultural meanings and contexts. Western philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, (Pseudo-)Dionysius, and the Neoplatonist renaissance thinker Leone Ebreo, delineate a hierarchy or a “ladder of love” differentiating lesser and higher subjects and objects of love from love of the particular, to the universal, cosmic, and divine. An interrelated distinction is ascertained between “desire” as a state of lack often seen as a lower state, and “love” as the higher state, in which fulfillment and joy of the union with the object of one’s love is achieved. Love and desire as marked yet interrelated emotions are contextualized in religious phenomena cross-culturally, most obviously in theistic frameworks in which a personal and intimate relationship with the divine is an ideal. Poetry and autobiography are the most common genre of depicting the intimate and passionate encounter of human and divine. Despite the prominence of male voices in the sources, the contributions of medieval Christian and Muslim women mystics to this literature are significant. Key base-texts from which mystics and philosophers are inspired and draw upon to elucidate their own personal experience of yearning for the divine, include the biblical Song of Songs, Bhagavata Purana (Book 10), and the Gitagovinda. Although the yearning for the divine, associated with an emotional, embodied state and therefore seen as problematic from a rational perspective, this yearning is also a cherished state, even for rationalists such as the medieval Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides. The significance of erotic love for the divine is confirmed, not only by Sufi and Hindu bhakti poets such as Rumi and Jayadeva, but also by philosophers such as Ibn Arabi and Rupa-Goswami. The idiom of erotic desire and love for God is particularly poignant and integral not only in poetry but also in theology, as exemplified in Hindu bhakti and Christian theology. Exploring the meanings of erotic love in religious poetry, theology, liturgy, and the history of religion more broadly offers a rich scholarly and personal medium for contemplating the reality of human and divine nature.