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Cultures in collision and conversation : essays in the intellectual history of the Jews /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Judaism and Jewish life.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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
- "The countenance of his father" : twenty-fifth years since the passing of Hadoar author Isaiah Berger of blessed memory.