Menachem Kellner

Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows to what extent and in what fashion Jews are bound to accept the opinions and the pronouncements of religious authorities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SUNY Press
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9780791429228
• ISBN-10: 0791429229
• Artikelnr.: 21542354

Autorenporträt

Menachem Kellner teaches medieval Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish History and Thought and is Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought and is Dean of Students at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought; Torat he-Ikkarim ba-Philosophiah ha-Yehudit Bimei ha-Benayim; Maimonides on Human Perfection; and Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People, also published by SUNY Press. He is translator of Isaac Abravanel's Principles of Faith and Levi ben Gershom's Commentary on Song of Songs; and editor of Contemporary Jewish Ethics; Rosh Amanah; and The Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild, also published by SUNY Press.