The Code of Maimonides
Author: Moses Maimonides
Publisher:
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13:
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The Book of Theodicy
Author: Ben Joseph Al-Fayyumi Saadiah
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780300037432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn in Egypt in 882, Saadiah Gaon was the first systematic philosopher of Judaism, the father of both scientific biblical exegesis and Jewish philosophic philosophy. In this book, L.E. Goodman presents the first English translation of Saadiah's important Book of Theodicy, a commentary on the Book of Job. Goodman's translation preserves Saadiah's penetrating naturalism, tenacity of theme and argument, and sensitivity to the nuances of poetic language.
Religion and International Law
Author: Mark W. Janis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004-02-01
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9047413407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the great tasks, perhaps the greatest, weighing on modern international lawyers is to craft a universal law and legal process capable of ordering relations among diverse people with differing religions, histories, cultures, laws, and languages. In so doing, we need to take the world's peoples as we find them and not pretend out of existence their wide variety. This volume, now available in paperback, builds on the eleven essays edited by Mark Janis in 1991 in The Influence of Religion and the Development of International Law, more than doubling its authors and essays and covering more religious traditions. Now included are studies of the interface between international law and ancient religions, Confucianism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as essays addressing the impact of religious thought on the literature and sources of international law, international courts, and human rights law.
The Code of Maimonides
Author: Moses Maimonides
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 0
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Author: Levi ben Gershom
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780300071474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis translation of Gersonides' Commentary on 'Song of Songs' brings to English-language readers a work that draws together many important strands and elements of Gersonides' thought: philosophical theology, philosophy of science, biblical exegesis and Aristotle/Averroes commentary.
Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory
Author: Yuval Sinai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-08-06
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1316843726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaimonides lived in Spain and Egypt in the twelfth century, and is perhaps the most widely studied figure in Jewish history. This book presents, for the first time, Maimonides' complete tort theory and how it compares with other tort theories both in the Jewish world and beyond. Drawing on sources old and new as well as religious and secular, Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory offers fresh interdisciplinary perspectives on important moral, consequentialist, economic, and religious issues that will be of interest to both religious and secular scholars. The authors mention several surprising points of similarity between certain elements of theories recently formulated by North American scholars and the Maimonidean theory. Alongside these similarities significant differences are also highlighted, some of them deriving from conceptual-jurisprudential differences and some from the difference between religious law and secular-liberal law.
Faking It
Author: William Ian Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-08-18
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780521830188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the intrusive fear that we may not be what we appear to be, or worse, that we may be only what we appear to be and nothing more. It is concerned with the worry of being exposed as frauds in our profession, cads in our love lives, as less than virtuously motivated actors when we are being agreeable, charitable, or decent. Why do we so often mistrust the motives of our own deeds, thinking them fake, though the beneficiary of them gives us full credit? Much of this book deals with that self-tormenting self-consciousness. It is about roles and identity, discussing our engagement in the roles we play, our doubts about our identities amidst this flux of roles, and thus about anxieties of authenticity.
Milton and the Jews
Author: Douglas A. Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-03-31
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 113947118X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe issue of the Jews deeply engaged Milton throughout his career, and not necessarily in ways that make for comfortable or reassuring reading today. While Shakespeare and Marlowe, for example, critiqued rather than endorsed racial and religious prejudice in their writings about Jews, the same cannot be said for Milton. The scholars in this collection confront a writer who participated in the sad history of anti-Semitism, even as he appropriated Jewish models throughout his writings. Well grounded in solid historical and theological research, the essays both collectively and individually offer an important contribution to the debate on Milton and Judaism. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of Milton and of seventeenth-century literature, but also to historians of the religion and culture of the period.
The Jewish Political Tradition
Author: Michael Walzer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 693
ISBN-13: 0300228341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third of four volumes in a distinguished series, this volume includes chapters on the nature of the communal bond, marriage and family, welfare, taxation, government, and criminal justice The four-volume series on the Jewish political tradition that includes this volume seeks to connect the political thought of ancient Israel and the Diaspora with the emerging traditions of the modern Israeli state. The first two volumes dealt with authority and membership, respectively; this third volume, with Madeline Kochen as coeditor, deals with community, with chapters on the communal bond, marriage and family, welfare, taxation, government, and criminal justice.
