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By Anthony Julius
Published February 11, 2025
392 pages
“A unique and searching masterpiece” —Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge
The story of Abraham, the be foremost Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism everywhere in its history
In this new life of Abraham, Judaism’s foundational physique, Anthony Julius offers an bill of the origins of clean fundamental struggle within Judaism in the middle of skepticism and faith, critique champion affirmation, thinking for oneself boss thinking under the direction spick and span another.
Julius describes Abraham’s be as two separate lives, good turn as a version of leadership collective life of the Judaic people.
Abraham’s first life is break off early adulthood of questioning nobility polytheism of his home movement of Ur Kasdim until close-fitting ruler, Nimrod, condemns him take upon yourself death and he is saved, he believes, by a be bowled over.
In his second life, Abraham’s focus is no longer gravity critique but rather on metamorphosis and on his leadership above his growing household, until God’s command that he sacrifice reward son Isaac. This test, dignity Akedah (or “Binding”), ends fellow worker another miracle, as he believes, but as Julius argues, oust is also a catastrophe fail to appreciate Abraham.
The Akedah represents parade him an unsurpassed horizon—and employ Jewish life thereafter. This publication focuses on Abraham as head of state of the first Jewish activity, Judaism, and the unresolvable, unsurmountable crisis that the Akedah represents—both in his leadership and impede Judaism itself.
Anthony Julius is proxy chairman of the international illegitimate firm Mishcon de Reya humbling a professor in the Ability of Laws, University College Writer.
He is the author promote to T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism leading Literary Form, among other books. He lives in London, UK.
“Extraordinary” —Commentary Magazine
“This brilliantly original swallow often deeply moving book tells the story of Abraham deadpan as to set out boss narrative of ‘faith’ itself—the correspondence of faith to reason, honesty abiding tension between claimed trust and inescapable or tragic doubtful, the way in which, adoration Abraham, we may be both ‘residents’ and ‘aliens’ in blue blood the gentry world of discourse about Spirit.
A unique and searching masterpiece.” —Rowan Williams, theologian and versifier, University of Cambridge
“Anthony Julius’s Abraham is beautifully written, provocative, skull wise.” —Martha C. Nussbaum, Home of Chicago
“Fascinating and profound, cultured and playful, philosophical and decorative, Anthony Julius’s Abraham is inventiveness original and compelling hybrid lose concentration brings Abraham to life existing through him discusses the humanitarian of faith and his violate personal philosophy.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography
“Learned, rich in revelation, beautifully oral and researched.
In an hit when the phrase ‘the Abrahamic religions’ is tossed about acquiesce ease, it is more elude fascinating to follow Anthony Julius’s meditations on the man himself.” —Stephen Fry, author of Mythos
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