Cultures in Collision and Conversation : Essays in the Intellectual History of the Jews /

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In Cultures in Collision and Conversation, David Berger addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered by this issue in medieval and modern times; the impact of Christian challenges and differing philosop...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berger, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2018]
Colección:Judaism and Jewish Life
Temas:
RELIGION / Judaism / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • The Cultural Environment: Challenge and Response
  • Identity, Ideology, and Faith: Some Personal Reflections on the Social, Cultural and Spiritual Value of the Academic Study of Judaism
  • Judaism and General Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Times
  • How Did Nahmanides Propose to Resolve the Maimonidean Controversy?
  • Miracles and the Natural Order in Nahmanides
  • Polemic, Exegesis, Philosophy, and Science: Reflections on the Tenacity of Ashkenazic Modes of Thought
  • Malbim's Secular Knowledge and His Relationship to the Spirit of the Haskalah
  • The Uses of Maimonides by Twentieth-Century Jewry
  • The Institute for Jewish Studies on its Eightieth Anniversary
  • Interpreting the Bible
  • 'The Wisest of All Men': Solomon's Wisdom in Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Book of Kings
  • On the Morality of the Patriarchs in Jewish Polemic and Exegesis
  • Yearning for Redemption
  • Three Typological Themes in Early Jewish Messianism: Messiah son of Joseph, Rabbinic Calculations, and the Figure of Armilus
  • Some Ironic Consequences of Maimonides' Rationalist Approach to the Messianic Age
  • Sephardic and Ashkenazic Messianism in the Middle Ages: An Examination of the Historiographical Controversy
  • Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus: The Impact of Zionism on Joseph Klausner's History of the Second Temple
  • The Fragility of Religious Doctrine: Accounting for Orthodox Acquiescence in the Belief in a Second Coming
  • Epilogue
  • The Image of his Father: On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Death of Hadoar Author Isaiah Berger
  • Index

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