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28 lip 2023 · The Hebrew word for love is ahavah, which is rooted in the more molecular word hav,1 which means to give, revealing that, according to Judaism, giving is at the root of love. What does this etymological insight teach us both about the function of love and about how love functions?
31 lip 2024 · He breaks the discussion of his theology of God’s love into three chapters. The first of the three chapters is titled “The God of Judaism (and of the ‘Old Testament’) Is a God of love” (chapter 13). Here Held explores what it means to say that God is love.
19 gru 2023 · It’s a simple question that writers and artists have asked repeatedly through the centuries, from Bernard of Clairvaux and Mildred Bangs Wynkoop to Tina Turner and Haddaway. It’s also the question that biblical scholar Song-Mi Suzie Park explores in her excellent new book.
3 lut 2024 · The verbal form of the noun agape (agapao) is used to say God loves the world of humanity in perhaps the most famous verse in the New Testament, John 3:16: “God loved the world in the following manner—he gave his only and beloved Son so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life” (author’s translation).
In 1963, William L. Moran published an influential article love of God in the book of Deuteronomy, in which he proposed Deuteronomy's understanding of love ('dheb, 'ahabd) is not modern notion, which defines love in terms of a tender feeling; a strong personal attachment; a sympathetic deep, natural, and genuine affection.'
concerns love in combination with anything having to do with God, such as love in the Hebrew Bible. When working with theologically significant texts and ideas, the temptation to lapse into meaningless truisms or facile advice, such as “God loves the world” or “you should love God,” is especially strong.
14 sty 2016 · The modern Jewish poet of love could no longer bring himself to believe in the mystical ascent to God. But he too was determined to reach a place in which the bitter differences fall away. His goal—and to an astonishing degree his achievement—was to reach down through Judaism to the body, his own and that of all humanity.
