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Encountering the medieval in modern Jewish thought /

How does the "medieval" function as a bearer of Jewish identity in a changing secular world? Each chapter in Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought addresses a different Jewish return to the medieval by using a language of renewal.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Diamond, James Arthur, Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Medieval" and the politics of nostalgia : ideology, scholarship, and the creation of a rational jew / Aaron W. Hughes
  • On the possibility of a hidden Christian will : methodological pitfalls in the study of medieval Jewish philosophy / Sarah Pessin
  • Lessing in Jerusalem : modern religion, medieval orientalism, and the idea of perfection / Zachary Braiterman
  • R. Abraham Isaac Kook and Maimonides : a contemporary mystic's embrace of medieval rationalism / James A. Diamond
  • On myth, history, and the study of Hasidism : Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem / Claire E Sufrin
  • What S.Y. Agnon taught Gershom Scholem about Jewish history / Kenneth Hart Green
  • Constructed and denied: "the Talmud" from the Brisker Rav to the Mishneh Torah / Sergey Dolgopolski
  • Escaping the scholastic paradigm : the dispute between Strauss and his contemporaries about how to approach Islamic and Jewish medieval philosophy / Joshua Parens
  • Justifying philosophy and restoring revelation : assessing Strauss's medieval return / Randi L. Rashkover
  • Echo of the otherwise: ethics of trandscendence and the lure of theolatry / Elliot R. Wolfson.