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, MA :
Academic Studies Press
[2018]
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| Colección: | De Gruyter Open Access ebooks.
Judaism and Jewish Life. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43316104*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 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
- Index.
