Between Yafeth and Shem
Between Yafeth and Shem

Author: Zeev Levy

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13:

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The book elucidates the complex relationship between Jewish philosophy and general philosophy. At the same time it examines Jewish philosophy as an independent discipline of thought. The issue of particular and characteristic problems of Jewish thought is taken up in the third part of the book. Other philosophical topics - from the general as well as the Jewish angle - are the quiddity of philosophy, its aims and tasks, its value and purpose, and the relations between philosophy, religion and theology, as reflected in general and Jewish thought. The concluding sections of the book highlight several basic problems of Jewish philosophy: its sources of inspiration and its influence, the motifs for philosophizing, the relation between reason and revelation, and lastly, the principal transformations in Jewish philosophy with the passage from medievalism to modernity.

New Horizons in Sephardic Studies
New Horizons in Sephardic Studies

Author: Yedida K. Stillman

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1438421311

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This book contains the most recent research in the intrinsically interdisciplinary field of Sephardic Studies. It provides new insights into Sephardic history, culture, folklore, languages, music, and literature from both new and established international scholars.

Two Models of Jewish Philosophy
Two Models of Jewish Philosophy

Author: Daniel Rynhold

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2005-03-17

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0191534544

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In a work that illustrates how Jewish philosophy can make a genuine contribution to general philosophical debate, Daniel Rynhold attempts to formulate a model for the justification of practices by applying the methods of modern analytic philosophy to approaches to the rationalization of the commandments from the history of Jewish philosophy. Through critical analysis of the methods of Moses Maimonides and Joseph Soloveitchik, Rynhold argues against propositional approaches to justifying practices that he terms Priority of Theory approaches and offers instead his own method, termed the Priority of Practice, which emphasizes the need for a more pragmatic take on this whole issue.

A People Apart
A People Apart

Author: Daniel H. Frank

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1438403208

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Philosphical speculations on chosenness and ritual in Judaism.

Contemporary Jewish Philosophy
Contemporary Jewish Philosophy

Author: Irene Kajon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-02

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1000082717

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This text introduces the most important Jewish philosophers of contemporary times from the point of view of their original approach to both Judaism and philosophy and include: Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenweig, Martin Buber, Leo Strauss, Emmanuel Levinas. It shows how for them the dialogue between Judaism and philosophy is necessary in order to avoid on one side, an attachment to Jewish tradition which is only nationalistic or non-rational; and on the other, an idea of philosophy which first of all focuses the problems of nature, human existence in the world, or God as the origin of being. In reconstructing the intellectual evolution of each of these twentieth-century philosophers with a view to their meaning today, this book is unique and goes beyond the standard historical account provided by other books. Contemporary Jewish Philosophy is essential reading for researchers and students of philosophy, Judaism and the history of religions.

History of Jewish Philosophy
History of Jewish Philosophy

Author: Daniel Frank

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-10-20

Total Pages: 871

ISBN-13: 113489435X

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Jewish philosophy is often presented as an addendum to Jewish religion rather than as a rich and varied tradition in its own right, but the History of Jewish Philosophy explores the entire scope and variety of Jewish philosophy from philosophical interpretations of the Bible right up to contemporary Jewish feminist and postmodernist thought. The links between Jewish philosophy and its wider cultural context are stressed, building up a comprehensive and historically sensitive view of Jewish philosophy and its place in the development of philosophy as a whole. Includes: · Detailed discussions of the most important Jewish philosophers and philosophical movements · Descriptions of the social and cultural contexts in which Jewish philosophical thought developed throughout the centuries · Contributions by 35 leading scholars in the field, from Britain, Canada, Israel and the US · Detailed and extensive bibliographies

Autonomy and Judaism
Autonomy and Judaism

Author: Daniel H. Frank

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1438403178

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This volume brings together leading philosophers of Judaism on the issue of autonomy in the Jewish tradition. Addressing themselves to the relationship of the individual Jew to the Jewish community and to the world at large, some selections are systematic in scope, while others are more historically focused. The authors address issues ranging from the earliest expressions of individual human fulfillment in the Bible and medieval Jewish discussions of the human good to modern discussions of the necessity for the Jew to maintain both a Jewish sensibility as well as an active engagement in the modern pluralistic state. Contributors include Eugene Borowitz, Elliot N. Dorff, Daniel H. Frank, Robert Gibbs, Lenn E. Goodman, Ze'ev Levy, Kenneth Seeskin, and Martin D. Yaffe.

From Spinoza to Lévinas
From Spinoza to Lévinas

Author: Zeev Levy

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781433106972

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Pt. I. Politics and hermeneutics in the philosophies of Spinoza and Mendelssohn -- Tolerance, liberty and equality -- Spinoza's and Maimonides' esoteric writings -- Pt. II. Philosophical hermeneutics -- Biblical hermeneutics : J.G. Herder and J.W. von Goethe -- Hermeneutics and demythologization : Martin Buber and Rudolf Bultmann -- Hermeneutics and tradition -- Pt. III. Ethics and contemporary Jewish thought -- Death, dying, body, and soul -- Does it make sense to speak about Jewish ethics? -- Pt. IV. Lévinas, politics, and contemporary Jewish thought -- Lévinas on state, revolution, and utopia -- Lévinas on secularization -- Lévinas on death and hope.

Targum Americana The Bible Understood - Bereshit / Genesis
Targum Americana The Bible Understood - Bereshit / Genesis

Author: Yirmi (Irwin) Tyler

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-09-25

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1304486125

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The fact that there are so many translations and commentaries of the Bible tells us that each is somehow lacking something. Most translators did not grow up with Biblical Hebrew as a living language, the Torah was meant to be chanted, and reading continuity is interrupted by footnotes and margin notes. This work overcomes these problems for English speakers in the way the 2,000 year old Targum did for that day's Aramaic speakers.