RT Article
T1 Jewish Death in Jewish Time: The Ontological Shift Required to Understand Torah Judaism's Indigenous Approach to Historical Trauma and Historical Memory
JF Religions
VO 13
IS 12
A1 Katz, Matthew Mordecai
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/182357310X
AB Scholars regularly make the mistake of applying critical analysis to religious traditions without a sensibility that they are often describing one ontology through the lens of another. Just as cultural anthropology attempts to understand indigenous traditions by respecting their unique worldview and minimizing the foreign a priori of the ethnographer, critical scholars of religion need to be mindful of this unconscious bias when studying religious communities from ‘outside’. The traditional Jewish experience of death, mourning and historical trauma is a case in point. As such, this essay considers the indigenous ontological a priori of Torah Judaism as contrasted with the a priori of ‘Enlightenment’ as understood by Foucault. It then applies this hermeneutic to ‘Jewish death in Jewish time’.
K1 Franz Rosenzweig
K1 J.B. Soloveitchik
K1 Michel Foucault
K1 Holocaust
K1 Jewish practice
K1 Jewish Thought
K1 historical memory
K1 Historical trauma
DO 10.3390/rel13121144