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Home \ News \ USP group studies women and the feminine in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, and in Kabbalah USP group studies women and the feminine in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, and in Kabbalah October , Published in:News The study of biblical texts is carried out using the approach of literary criticism, examining works like literature produced in the Hebrew language and published over the centuries. Hebrew Bible, Christian Bible and the Zohar (Book of Splendor), basis for Kabbalah studies. Photomontage: Jornal da USP By Valéria Dias Most people have learned about the biblical texts through a religious, Judeo-Christian interpretation. But how many have read a story like the story of Adam and Eve as literature, with all the nuances of a literary text? This is the purpose of a group of researchers from the School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences (FFLCH) at USP, coordinated by professor Suzana Chwarts, who intend to study the figure of women and the feminine in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and the Kabbalah, based on the reading of these texts as literary texts.
Suzana Chwarts, from the Oriental Literature department at FFLCH – Photo: Reproduction/Ibab Education But how do we scientifically study the scriptures? The group’s idea is not to desecrate the writings, for that would be to alter their essence, since they were not composed as secular texts, but as sacred ones. Once in the field of academic inquiry, we have to disc Whatsapp Number List ard some of the criteria of theology and religion: Is that true? Is that faith? And to apply scientific criteria to the texts, such as the principle of doubt and the practice of free inquiry. We may and should query the text and use this freedom to formulate a critical commentary, whose objective is to elucidate and illuminate”, explains to the USP Newspaper Suzana Chwarts, professor of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Hebrew Bible at the Department of Oriental Literature at FFLCH (Faculty of Philosophy, Literature, and Human Sciences), and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at USP. The researcher also reinforces that it does not behoove her or the group to question any religious tradition — because all of them are lawful. According to her, the great key to analyzing these scriptures is literary criticism: to read the text like any other in literature and make a dispassionate reading: there is a storyteller, several characters, verbs used to indicate actions, the narrative.
Read at the end of this text the story of Eden, from reading in the original Hebrew). The researchers are guided by the freedom to interrogate and inquiry the biblical text and by the goal of forming a critical-academic and, therefore, interdiscipline on these texts and everything in them: the social, political, historical context, the postulates of faith, the narratives, all the literary aspects, the reception and impact of them. The Bible The Hebrew Bible is an anthology of a variety of genres. It has been published and reissued numerous times for at least nine centuries. These are books of oral traditions, stories, laws, proverbs, poems, speeches of kings and prophets, fables, and all ordained according to canonical standards. However, each book brings its own authorial and linguistic characteristics. According to Professor Suzana, it is necessary to comprehend in this plurality the different points of view expressed in the Hebrew Bible. What we read in Deuteronomy is different in Exodus and Leviticus, and different in the Chronicles.
Suzana Chwarts, from the Oriental Literature department at FFLCH – Photo: Reproduction/Ibab Education But how do we scientifically study the scriptures? The group’s idea is not to desecrate the writings, for that would be to alter their essence, since they were not composed as secular texts, but as sacred ones. Once in the field of academic inquiry, we have to disc Whatsapp Number List ard some of the criteria of theology and religion: Is that true? Is that faith? And to apply scientific criteria to the texts, such as the principle of doubt and the practice of free inquiry. We may and should query the text and use this freedom to formulate a critical commentary, whose objective is to elucidate and illuminate”, explains to the USP Newspaper Suzana Chwarts, professor of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Hebrew Bible at the Department of Oriental Literature at FFLCH (Faculty of Philosophy, Literature, and Human Sciences), and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at USP. The researcher also reinforces that it does not behoove her or the group to question any religious tradition — because all of them are lawful. According to her, the great key to analyzing these scriptures is literary criticism: to read the text like any other in literature and make a dispassionate reading: there is a storyteller, several characters, verbs used to indicate actions, the narrative.
Read at the end of this text the story of Eden, from reading in the original Hebrew). The researchers are guided by the freedom to interrogate and inquiry the biblical text and by the goal of forming a critical-academic and, therefore, interdiscipline on these texts and everything in them: the social, political, historical context, the postulates of faith, the narratives, all the literary aspects, the reception and impact of them. The Bible The Hebrew Bible is an anthology of a variety of genres. It has been published and reissued numerous times for at least nine centuries. These are books of oral traditions, stories, laws, proverbs, poems, speeches of kings and prophets, fables, and all ordained according to canonical standards. However, each book brings its own authorial and linguistic characteristics. According to Professor Suzana, it is necessary to comprehend in this plurality the different points of view expressed in the Hebrew Bible. What we read in Deuteronomy is different in Exodus and Leviticus, and different in the Chronicles.