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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Judaism and Jewish life. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30954915*spi |
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 die 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.
