Parlant de Jésus, Martin Buber disait qu’il fut « le plus juif de tous les juifs ». Il est vrai que sur les plans spirituel et religieux, Jésus est d’abord juif, et l’étude du Jésus de l’histoire ne peut ignorer ni la totale judéité du Nazaréen, ni sa revendication à être le verus Israël. Aujourd’hui, nous connaissons le Jésus de l’histoire à travers le regard que portaient sur lui ses disciples et les évangélistes. Or ceux-ci ont été influencés par les problèmes que rencontraient leurs ég...

« Le Seigneur Dieu prit l’homme et le conduisit dans le jardin d’Éden pour qu’il le cultive et le garde » (Gn 2, 15). Le thème du travail est historiquement persistant : entre le travailleur du xxe siècle et celui du Proche-Orient ancien, rien n’a changé. Le travail demeure un constituant essentiel de la vie humaine.En se basant sur la Genèse, André Lacocque met en évidence la centralité du travail en tant qu’il appartient intrinsèquement à la création même de l’être humain : Dieu a...

This is the second edition of a 1979 commentary on the book of Daniel. The commentary is completely revised, and the introduction in particular is here much extended and addresses fundamental questions regarding the book of Daniel and the apocalyptic movement it inaugurates (with 1 Enoch). Daniel is an indispensable trove and reference about issues like the apocalyptic vision of world's periodized history, the notion of Son of Man, messianism without a messiah, the belief in resurrection, ...

The Bible highly praises human creativity. In fact, work belongs to Adam’s very creation, homo faber in the image of deus faber (Gen. 2:15). Human production is nevertheless seen in the Bible as imbued with an ambiguous value. In Work and Creativity, André LaCocque reflects on the biblical understanding of labor, juxtaposing texts from the book of Genesis with the conceptions of work of psychoanalysts and philosophers such as Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx, and proposing a dialectical approac...

Penser la Bible est un livre à deux voix, unique dans son genre dans le domaine des études sur la Bible. En effet, un exégète patenté, spécialiste de l'approche historique et littéraire, et l'un des plus grands philosophes contemporains y abordent ensemble six textes clés de l'Ancien Testament, chacun avec sa grille de lecture, son savoir, son style, ses préoccupations propres. Ces textes sont : le récit de la création et de la Chute (Genèse 2-3), le décalogue (Exode 20), la visio...

Reading Scripture with Paul Ricoeur is a unique volume in which twelve diverse contributors illuminate and analyze Paul Ricoeur’s personal religious faith and intellectual passion for Scripture. The co-editors, Joseph A. Edelheit and James F Moore, each studied with Ricoeur at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and bring the perspectives of a rabbi and of a Lutheran pastor and theologian, respectively. This book engages topics such as translation, biblical hermeneutics, and p...

The Adam and Eve narrative in Genesis 2-3 has gripped not only biblical scholars, but also theologians, artists, philosophers, and almost everyone else. In this engaging study, a master of biblical interpretation provides a close reading of the Yahwist story. As in his other works, LaCocque makes wise use of the Pseudepigrapha and rabbinic interpretations, as well as the full range of modern interpretations. Every reader will be engaged by his insights.

The legacy of the late Andre LaCocque is brought to life in this book, each chapter having been written by his beloved friends and former students. His work has so inspired them that each of the contributor chapters moves LaCocque's work forward in directions of which he surely would have joyfully approved. His great love of Jewish-Christian relations, matters of social justice, feminist biblical scholarship, and interdisciplinary dialogue are carried forward in the enthusiasm and careful ...