| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 17 |
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Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 17.
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| Contents |
"Medieval" and the politics of nostalgia : ideology, scholarship, and the creation of a rational jew / Aaron W. Hughes -- On the possibility of a hidden Christian will : methodological pitfalls in the study of medieval Jewish philosophy / Sarah Pessin -- Lessing in Jerusalem : modern religion, medieval orientalism, and the idea of perfection / Zachary Braiterman -- R. Abraham Isaac Kook and Maimonides : a contemporary mystic's embrace of medieval rationalism / James A. Diamond -- On myth, history, and the study of Hasidism : Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem / Claire E Sufrin -- What S.Y. Agnon taught Gershom Scholem about Jewish history / Kenneth Hart Green -- Constructed and denied: "the Talmud" from the Brisker Rav to the Mishneh Torah / Sergey Dolgopolski -- Escaping the scholastic paradigm : the dispute between Strauss and his contemporaries about how to approach Islamic and Jewish medieval philosophy / Joshua Parens -- Justifying philosophy and restoring revelation : assessing Strauss's medieval return / Randi L. Rashkover -- Echo of the otherwise: ethics of trandscendence and the lure of theolatry / Elliot R. Wolfson |
| Summary |
How does the "medieval" function as a bearer of Jewish identity in a changing secular world? Each chapter in Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought addresses a different Jewish return to the medieval by using a language of renewal |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Jewish philosophy.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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Judaism -- History -- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.
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Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750-
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PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
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Jewish philosophy
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Judaism -- Medieval and early modern period
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Judaism -- Modern period
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Philosophy, Medieval
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Philosophy, Modern
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Diamond, James Arthur.
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Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-
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| LC no. |
2012018950 |
| ISBN |
9789004234062 |
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9004234063 |
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1283551322 |
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9781283551328 |
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9786613863775 |
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6613863777 |
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