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The Jewish intellectual tradition : a history of learning and achievement /
The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship. In this book, the authors suggest that there is a series of common principles that can be extracted from the Jewish intellectual tradition that have broad, even lif...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Judaism and Jewish life.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE Libraries of the Jewish People
- 1. Golden Libraries in the "Golden Age," Tenth-Twelfth Centuries: The Library of Rabbi Samuel Ha-Nagid
- 2. Nahmanides and His Library
- 3. From Manuscript to Printing Press: The Library of Leone Modena
- 4. The Modern Period: The Library of Rabbi Samson R. Hirsch
- 5. The Library of Professor Harry Austryn Wolfson
- 6. The Contemporary University Library
- PART TWO From Text to Success: Salient Ideas and Values and Their Influence
- Introduction
- 7. Respect for Precedent and Critical Independence
- 8. Logical Reasoning and Pursuit of Truth
- 9. The Primacy of Education
- 10. A Purposeful Life--The Pursuit of Perfection
- 11. Summary and Conclusions
- Note on Translations
- Appendix: Maps
- Illustration Credits
- Notes
- Index
- Authors' Biographies