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The Last Rabbi : Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition /

Joseph Soloveitchik (1903--1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, philosopher, and theologian. In this new work, William Kolbrener takes on Soloveitchik's controversial legacy and shows how he was torn between the traditionalist demands of his European ancestors and the trajector...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Kolbrener, William (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The making of Joseph Soloveitchik and the unmaking of Talmudic tradition
  • Hermeneutics of Rabbinic mourning
  • Pluralism, Rabbinic poetry, and dispute
  • Love, repentance, sublimation
  • Joseph Soloveitchik: a melancholy modern
  • Beyond the law: repentance and gendered memory
  • From interpretive conquest to antithetic ethics
  • The last Rabbi and Talmudic irony.