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Horizontal Society (Volumes 1 & 2)
Understanding the Covenant and Alphabetic Judaism (Vol. I and II)
Av Jose Faur
Häftad, 2010
1154 kr
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The Horizontal Society is an exposition of rabbinic thought as exemplified by Maimonides. The thought streams of Greece, Rome, and Christendom serve as a contrast. This work is in the Hebrew rhetorical tradition of melisa. The main text in five sections-—The God of Israel, The Books of Israel, The …
Modern Jewish Thinkers
From Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig
E-bok, 2011
3117 kr
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Historical conditions at the end of the eighteenth century opened an arena between the formerly autonomous Jewish community and the Christian world, which yielded new departure points for philosophy, including revelation and philosophical reason, dialectically considered; rationalism as …
Jewish Philosophy
Perspectives and Retrospectives
Av Raphael Jospe, Dov Schwartz
Inbunden, 2012
1199 kr
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This collection includes two symposia, on “The Renaissance of Jewish Philosophy in America” and on “Maimonides on the Eternity of the World,” as well as other studies in medieval Jewish philosophy and modern Jewish thought. Contributors include: Leora Batnitzky, Ottfried Fraisse, William A. …
God's Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us
A Contemporary Doctrine of the Jews as the Chosen People
Inbunden, 2012
1017 kr
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Jerome Gellman presents a new theology of the Jews as the Chosen People, addressing self-serving ethnocentric supremacy, cultural isolation, and defamation of religions other than Judaism. This book is traditional in taking chosenness and the truth of Judaism seriously, and in eschewing a theology …
Judaism as Philosophy
Studies in Maimonides and the Medieval Jewish Philosophers of Provence
Inbunden, 2015
1318 kr
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The studies comprising this volume, most of them appearing for the first time in English, deal with some of the main topics in Maimonides’ philosophy and that of his followers in Provence. At the heart of these topics lies the issue of whether they adopted a completely naturalistic picture of the …
Jewish Customs of Kabbalistic Origin
Their Origin and Practice
Inbunden, 2013
1040 kr
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Jewish religious practice has been transformed by the Kabbalists of Safed in the sixteenth century. They brought new meaning and importance to many Biblical and rabbinic commandments and created new rituals that have become central practices for Jews of all denominations. This volume describes the …
Faith
Jewish Perspectives
Av Dov Schwartz, Avi Sagi
Inbunden, 2013
1561 kr
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Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. Is believing a voluntary action, or do believers find themselves within the experience of faith against their will? Can faith be understood through other means …
Faith
Jewish Perspectives
Av Dov Schwartz, Avi Sagi
Häftad, 2014
470 kr
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Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. Is believing a voluntary action, or do believers find themselves within the experience of faith against their will? Can faith be understood through other means …
Angel of Jewish History
The Image of the Jewish Past in the Twentieth Century
Av Ronny Miron
Inbunden, 2014
1318 kr
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The Angel of Jewish History casts a philosophical gaze upon the relationship between the traditional Jewish past and the present through the metaphysical worldviews of five formative Jewish studies scholars: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Amos Funkenstein, Gershom Scholem, Baruch Kurzweil, and Nathan …
Angel of Jewish History: The Image of the Jewish Past in the Twentieth Century
The Image of the Jewish Past in the Twentieth Century
Av Ronny Miron
E-bok, 2014
2771 kr
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The Angel of Jewish History casts a philosophical gaze upon the relationship between the traditional Jewish past and the present through the metaphysical worldviews of five formative Jewish studies scholars: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Amos Funkenstein, Gershom Scholem, Baruch Kurzweil, and Nathan …
Red Rose in the Dark
Self-Constitution through the Poetic Language of Zelda, Amichai, Kosman, and Adaf
Inbunden, 2016
1483 kr
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How can we characterize the uniqueness of poetic language? How can we describe the evasive enchantment of the paradox that is created by both universal and autobiographical expression? How does ordinary language function aesthetically while motivating the reader to acknowledge himself and to reveal …
Prayer After the Death of God
A Phenomenological Study of Hebrew Literature
Av Avi Sagi
Inbunden, 2016
1170 kr
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The widespread view is that prayer is the center of religious existence and that understanding the meaning of prayer requires that we assume God is its sole destination. This book challenges this assumption and, through a phenomenological analysis of the meaning of prayer in modern Hebrew …
This Was from God
A Contemporary Theology of Torah and History
Inbunden, 2016
1040 kr
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Publicly or secretly, traditional Jews increasingly doubt the historical reliability of the Torah. Here, Gellman provides an "old-fashioned" Jewish theology for accepting the contemporary critique of Torah and history. Gellman presents an outline of the scholarly conclusions, and then examines …
Reflections on Identity
The Jewish Case
Av Avi Sagi
Inbunden, 2017
1017 kr
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Two basic approaches have shaped the identity discourse since antiquity. The essentialist view assumes that a person's identity does exist "somewhere," and the discourse on identity is an attempt to disclose it. People do not create their identity, they only realize it. The opposite, …
Messianism in Medieval Jewish Thought
Av Dov Schwartz
Inbunden, 2017
1007 kr
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How did medieval Jewish scholars, from Saadia Gaon to Yitzhak Abravanel, imagine a world that has experienced salvation? What is the nature of reality in the days of the Messiah? This work explores reactions to the seductive promises of apocalyptic teachings, tracing their fluctuations between …
Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik on the Experience of Prayer
Av Dov Schwartz
Inbunden, 2019
1628 kr
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This book is devoted to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s discussions on the practice of prayer. Prayer is analyzed across a broad and complex spectrum in Soloveitchik’s work, and his writings describing and analyzing the experience of prayer afford a profound insight into its diversity, ranging from …
Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik on the Experience of Prayer
Av Dov Schwartz
Häftad, 2019
544 kr
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This book is devoted to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s discussions on the practice of prayer. Prayer is analyzed across a broad and complex spectrum in Soloveitchik’s work, and his writings describing and analyzing the experience of prayer afford a profound insight into its diversity, ranging from …
Many Faces of Maimonides
Av Dov Schwartz
Inbunden, 2018
1593 kr
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This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides’ commitment to integrity led him to a critique of the Kal?m, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge. Maimonides’ search …
Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews
A Contemporary Jewish Theology
Inbunden, 2019
1225 kr
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That the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, “the God of the Jews,” is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts of that God, by contemporary standards, as well as by the classic problem of evil. In this book, Jerome Gellman aims to alleviate the first challenge, the …
Many Faces of Maimonides
Av Dov Schwartz
Häftad, 2019
524 kr
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This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides’ commitment to integrity led him to a critique of the Kalām, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge. Maimonides’ search …
Quest for Life
A Study in Aharon David Gordon’s Philosophy of Man in Nature
Av Yossi Turner
Inbunden, 2020
1400 kr
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A.D. Gordon was one of the most interesting and original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Quest for Life presents Gordon's philosophy, which was developed in Hebrew at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the English reading public. It discusses the role played by the early Land of …
New Jewish Canon
Av Yehuda Kurtzer, Claire E. Sufrin
Inbunden, 2020
1742 kr
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The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over …
New Jewish Canon
Av Yehuda Kurtzer, Claire E. Sufrin
Häftad, 2020
444 kr
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“This is a rich collection that provides a window into many of the key debates that have raged, and still rage, in the Jewish world. It raises many provocative questions about the nature of contemporary Judaism and its future.” —Martin Green, Jewish Book CouncilThe late twentieth and …
Inner Religion in Jewish Sources
A Phenomenology of Inner Religious Life and Its Manifestation from the Bible to Hasidic Texts
Av Ron Margolin
Inbunden, 2021
1456 kr
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Is Judaism essentially a religion of laws and commandments? Or do its sources reflect significant attempts at addressing the individual’s inner life, existential crises and spiritual experiences?Inner Religion in Jewish Sources offers a comprehensive exploration of inner life in the Jewish sources …
Moses and Abraham Maimonides
Encountering the Divine
Av Diana Lobel
Häftad, 2022
338 kr
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Moses Maimonides—a proud heir to the Andalusian tradition of Aristotelian philosophy—crafted a bold and original philosophical interpretation of Torah and Judaism. His son Abraham Maimonides is a fascinating maverick whose Torah commentary mediates between the philosophical interpretations of his …
Judaism and Human Geography
Av Yossi Katz
Inbunden, 2021
1040 kr
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Judaism is a religion and a way of life that combines beliefs as well as practical commandments and traditions, encompassing all spheres of life. Some of the numerous precepts emerge directly from the Torah (the Law of Moses). Others are commanded by Oral Law, rulings of illustrious Jewish legal …
Moses and Abraham Maimonides
Encountering the Divine
Av Diana Lobel
Inbunden, 2021
1017 kr
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Moses Maimonides—a proud heir to the Andalusian tradition of Aristotelian philosophy—crafted a bold and original philosophical interpretation of Torah and Judaism. His son Abraham Maimonides is a fascinating maverick whose Torah commentary mediates between the philosophical interpretations of his …
Twilight of Reason
Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe
Häftad, 2021
331 kr
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“Think of the disaster” is the first injunction of thought when faced with the disaster that struck European Jews during the Shoah. Thinking of the disaster means understanding why the Shoah was able to occur in civilized Europe, moulded by humane reason and the values of progress and …
Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2009
1742 kr
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Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages presents an overview of the formative period of medieval Jewish philosophy, from its beginnings with Saadiah Gaon to its apex in Maimonides, when Jews living in Islamic countries and writing in Arabic were the first to develop a conscious and continuous …
Horizontal Society (Vol. 2)
Understanding the Covenant and Alphabetic Judaism (Vol. 2)
Av Jose Faur
Inbunden, 2008
514 kr
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The Horizontal Society is an exposition of rabbinic thought as exemplified by Maimonides. The thought streams of Greece, Rome, and Christendom serve as a contrast. This work is in the Hebrew rhetorical tradition of melisa. The main text in five sections-—The God of Israel, The Books of Israel, The …
