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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel H Frank; Oliver Leaman; Charles Harry Manekin |
ISBN: | 0415168597 9780415168595 0415168600 9780415168601 |
OCLC Number: | 44019142 |
Description: | xvii, 618 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Creation: divine power and human freedom -- The Aqedah (The binding of Isaac): Divine commandments and moral duties -- 'Hardening of hearts': on free will and repentance -- Job and Divine providence -- Justice -- Prayer and Faith -- Free will and divine foreknowledge -- Election -- Law and rationality -- Issues of meaning -- Jewish Kalam -- Jewish Neoplatonism -- Jodah Halevi and Abraham Ibn Ezra -- Maimonides -- Jewish Aristotelianism in Spain and Provence -- The conservative reaction in Christian Spain -- Jewish Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance -- A critique of traditional religion -- Judaism and the enlightenment -- Scholarship and religious reform -- The authority of tradition -- Revelation, redemption, and the nature of Judaism -- Immortality and Messianism -- Other faiths -- Prophecy and the community -- Rationalism -- Evil and suffering --Issues of inclusion -- Election and covenant -- Holocauset -- The State of Israel/Zionism -- Reason and Faith -- Belief. |
Responsibility: | edited by Daniel H. Frank, Oliver Leaman, and Charles H. Manekin. |
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'This is an immensely wide-ranging anthology, covering all the great themes of Jewish reflection and spanning the eras from biblical texts through the medieval Jewish philosophers to modern times. I have no doubt that it will quickly become the standard text for courses on the history of Jewish thought.' - Jonathan Sacks, Jewish Chronicle 'This is an immensely wide-ranging anthology, covering all the great themes of Jewish reflection and spanning the eras from biblical texts through the medieval Jewish philosophers to modern times. I have no doubt that it will quickly become the standard text for courses on the history of Jewish thought.' - Jonathan Sacks, Jewish Chronicle Read more...


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