{"id":2328,"date":"2011-04-05T14:11:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jasonstaples.com\/blog\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2011-04-05T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:11:20","slug":"ancient-hebrew-poetry-remembering-abraham-joshua-heschel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonstaples.com\/bible\/ancient-hebrew-poetry-remembering-abraham-joshua-heschel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Hebrew Poetry &#8211; Remembering Abraham Joshua Heschel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Hobbins has just posted <a href=\"http:\/\/ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com\/ancient_hebrew_poetry\/2011\/04\/remembering-abraham-joshua-heschel-1907-1972.html\">a blog memorial to Abraham Joshua Heschel<\/a> that&#8217;s well worth checking out, including links to Heschel&#8217;s famous NBC video interview two weeks before his death, profiles of Heschel,\u00a0 and other useful material. Heschel is one of the most influential scholars in my own work\u2014I remain convinced that his two volume work, <em><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Prophets\" rel=\"amazon nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prophets-Abraham-Joshua-Heschel\/dp\/0061314218%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0061314218\">The Prophets<\/a><\/em>, is one of the best few works penned in the twentieth century. There are few books\u2014and perhaps no scholarly work\u2014 I would choose to keep over my copy of <em>The Prophets<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Heschel&#8217;s understanding and portrayal of the <em>pathos<\/em> of the God of Israel\u2014a God who wept with anger and could be wounded by his creation\u2014remains unparalleled. Heschel highlighted the difference between the just God of the Hebrew Bible and the arbitrary gods of the surrounding world\u2014an emphasis badly lacking in much of today&#8217;s Christian theology, where many defend a notion of an arbitrary God whose very arbitrariness they define as justice.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to John for posting a remembrance to one of the truly great men (and scholars) of the last century.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=a3394694-71af-445e-8502-f39adf5683ac\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hobbins has just posted a blog memorial to Abraham Joshua Heschel that&#8217;s well worth checking out, including links to Heschel&#8217;s famous NBC video interview two weeks before his death, profiles of Heschel,\u00a0 and other useful material. 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