Menachem Kellner

Science in the Bet Midrash (eBook, PDF)

Studies in Maimonides

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Produktbeschreibung

Born and educated in the United States, Menachem Kellner (Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 1973) has lived in Israel for the last 30 years. Author, editor, or translator of 16 books and over 100 scholarly articles, Kellner's most recent books include Science in the Bet Midrash and Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism (2006).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618110961
• Artikelnr.: 56998743

Autorenporträt

Menachem Kellner is Chair of Shalem College, Jerusalem¿s Department of Jewish Thought and Philosophy and Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought (emeritus) at the University of Haifa. He is the author, editor, or translator of two dozen books (including two published by Academic Studies Press) and close to two hundred articles in medieval and modern Jewish thought.

Inhaltsangabe

By Way of Personal Introduction. Acknowledgements. PART ONE: APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF MAIMONIDES. Introduction to Part One, Approaches to the Study of Maimonides. 1. Reading Rambam
Approaches to the Interpretation of Maimonides. 2. Strauss
Maimonides vs. Maimonides
Maimonides: Could Maimonides have been both Enlightened and Orthodox? 3. The Literary Character of the Mishneh Torah: On the Art of Writing in Maimonides
Halakhic Works. 4. Is Maimonides
Ideal Person Austerely Rationalist? PART TWO: RELIGIOUS FAITH AND DOGMA. Introduction to Part Two, Religious Faith and Dogma. 5. Heresy and the Nature of Faith in Medieval Jewish Philosophy. 6. What is Heresy? 7. Maimonides
Thirteen Principles and the Structure of the Guide of the Perplexed. 8. Maimonides, Crescas, and Abravanel on Ex. 20:2: A Medieval Jewish Exegetical Dispute. 9. Could Maimonides Get into Rambam
s Heaven? 10. Returning the Crown to its Ancient Glory: Marc Shapirös The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides
Thirteen Principles Reappraised. 11. The Virtue of Faith. PART THREE: SCIENCE AND TORAH. Introduction to Part Three, Science and Torah. 12. On the Status of the Astronomy and Physics in Maimonides
Mishneh Torah and Guide of the Perplexed: A Chapter in the History of Science. 13. Maimonides on the Science of the Mishneh Torah: Provisional or Permanent? 14. Maimonides
Allegiances to Science and Judaism. 15. Faith, Science, and Orthodoxy. PART FOUR: UNIVERSALISM. Introduction to Part Four, Universalism. 16. Chosenness, Not Chauvinism: Maimonides on the Chosen People. 17. Was Maimonides Truly Universalist? 18. Maimonides
True Religion
for Jews, or All Humanity? 19. Spirituality and a Life of Holiness
How One Lives a Holy Life and Who Can Do It. 20. Epilogue. Works Cited. Index.