Anthony Julius Abraham recensie, review en informatie biografie van de aartsvader van de Israëlieten . Op 11 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Jewish Lives de biografie Abraham, The First Jew, geschreven door de professor aan Faculty of Laws, University College in Londen. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de biografie, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Anthony Julius Abraham recensie, review en informatie

• “This brilliantly original and often deeply moving book tells the story of Abraham so as to set out a narrative of ‘faith’ itself—the relation of faith to reason, the abiding tension between claimed conviction and inescapable or tragic questioning, the way in which, like Abraham, we may be both ‘residents’ and ‘aliens’ in the world of discourse about God. A unique and searching masterpiece.” (Rowan Williams, theologian and poet, University of Cambridge)
• “Fascinating and profound, scholarly and playful, philosophical and aesthetic, Anthony Julius’s Abraham is an original and compelling hybrid that brings Abraham to life and through him discusses the nature of faith and his own personal philosophy.”(Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography)

Abraham

The First Jew

• Auteur: Anthony Julius (Engeland)
• Soort boek: biografie
• Taal: Engels
• Uitgever: Yale University Press
• Reeks: Jewish Lives
• Verschijnt: 11 februari 2025
• Omvang: 392 pagina’s
• Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
• Prijs: $ 30,00
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van Abraham de aartsvader van de Joden

The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history.

In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism’s foundational figure, Anthony Julius offers an account of the origins of a fundamental struggle within Judaism between skepticism and faith, critique and affirmation, thinking for oneself and thinking under the direction of another. Julius describes Abraham’s life as two separate lives, and as a version of the collective life of the Jewish people.

Abraham’s first life is an early adulthood of questioning the polytheism of his home city of Ur Kasdim until its ruler, Nimrod, condemns him to death and he is rescued, he believes, by a miracle. In his second life, Abraham’s focus is no longer on critique but rather on conversion and on his leadership over his growing household, until God’s command that he sacrifice his son Isaac. This test, the Akedah (or “Binding”), ends with another miracle, as he believes, but as Julius argues, it is also a catastrophe for Abraham. The Akedah represents for him an unsurpassed horizon—and in Jewish life thereafter. This book focuses on Abraham as leader of the first Jewish project, Judaism, and the unresolvable, insurmountable crisis that the Akedah represents—both in his leadership and in Judaism itself.

Anthony Julius was born 16 July 1956 in London. He is deputy chairman of the international law firm Mishcon de Reya and a professor in the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is the author of T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form, among other books. He lives in London, United Kingdom.

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