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Paradoxes in God's Garden: Jewish Philosophy and the Edenic Narrative


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This edited collection offers new perspectives on perceived paradoxes in Israel’s religious heritage, with a particular focus on the Garden of Eden narrative and descriptions of Israel’s God. The chapters examine a number of themes related to these paradoxes, including (1) “knowledge” versus “life” (referencing the two Edenic trees); (2) paradoxes pertaining to knowledge in the biblical versus Socratic traditions and the Platonic “good” versus the apparent eschewing of the good-evil dichotomy in Garden of Eden; (3) difficulties implicating finitude versus infinity; (4) God’s Edenic garden versus rabbinical “orchard,” or Pardes, the traditional fourfold manner of Torah interpretation; (5) the question of the Sôd, or “secret” esoteric stratum or narrative channel within the text of the Torah; (6) the issue of idolatry; (7) the nature of Israel’s deity; (8) a comparative glimpse of the Israelite God vis-à-vis relevant Christian and Buddhist glosses on divinity; and (9) science-fictional explorations of the biblical exegesis discourse. The volume’s contributors are based in Canada; England; Poland; Israel; and the United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Paradise, Paradox, the Infinite Inscrutable God, and the Idolatry of Human Interpretation
Ori Z. Soltes

Part One: Paradisiacal Paradoxes

Chapter 1: The Tree of the Finite Life: Judaism and the Affirmation of Finitude
Agata Bielik-Robson

Chapter 2: Lost in the Garden of God and Good: Knowledge and Its Paradoxes from Genesis to Meno and Cratylus to Levinas
Ori Z. Soltes

Chapter 3: Mystical Gardening in Jewish Lore: YHWH’s Garden of Eden versus the Rabbinical Orchard of PaRDeS
Alex Shalom Kohav

Part Two: God, God’s Name, God’s Torah

Chapter 4: Torah, God, and Idol
Kevin Hart

Chapter 5: Metaphysics of the Name in Israelite Thought: The Hebrew Conception of God’s Nature
Michael T. Miller

Chapter 6: A Comparative Analysis of God and the Buddhas
Louis Hébert

Part Three: A Science-Fictional Afterword

Chapter 7: Taboo Knowledge or Knowledge of Taboo? Expulsion from Eden and Science Fiction Literature
Elana Gomel



About the Author :

Alex S. Kohav teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Ori Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, from theology and art history to philosophy and political history.



Review :
"Paradoxes in God’s Garden offers a collection of essays that revolve in a sort of whirling dance around the enigmatic nature of the Edenic narrative in the Book of Genesis. Some of the apparent paradoxes that have provoked scholarly discussions are described in the introduction by coeditor Ori Z. Soltes and in a chapter by Agata Bielik-Robson: knowledge and life; good and evil; liberation and limitation; finite life versus immortality; idolatry versus representation; and methods of memory formation and maintenance of traditions. Coeditor Alex Shalom Kohav introduces the idea of secret knowledge transmitted in the Torah and interpreted variously, by the initiated and the uninitiated (respectively, the priestly and rabbinical streams). Several chapters extend beyond the immediate focus on Eden to look at related issues. The question of knowledge in Genesis is compared by Ori Z. Soltes to the Platonic theory of knowledge as recollection (chapter 2). Michael T. Miller introduces an interesting argument of the distinction between the infinite status of perfect Being and the nature of divine Becoming, as contrasted to the absolute singularity of God, considered in Kevin Hart’s chapter. Louis Hébert offers a comparison of (primarily) the Christian notion of God and the spiritual attributes that Buddhism, one of only two nontheistic traditional religions, associates with the buddhas. Finally, Elana Gomel discusses the theme of forbidden knowledge as it has been refracted and reflected through literary history, including modern science fiction. In this multifaceted and absorbing collection, interested readers will find a helpful resource in developing their own understanding of a narrative that has been central to Western and Middle Eastern cultures."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781666969801
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 244
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 553 gr
  • ISBN-10: 166696980X
  • Publisher Date: 18 Nov 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Jewish Philosophy and the Edenic Narrative
  • Width: 152 mm


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