Abstract
Rabbinic theology, in the various Midrashim, reveals an intense attentiveness to God as a divine relational subject in the figures of king, a father, a husband, sometime a mother, and a judge. If God is, indeed, a relational subject capable of intentionality and responsiveness seeking a partner, the perfections attributed to him by the philosophers are actually flaws and imperfections from the perspective of Rabbinic theology.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 60-76 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781108233705 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781108415439 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- God as Subject
- Midrash
- Perfection
- Rabbinic Theology