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Record Nr.

UNINA9910258754303321

Autore

Berger David <1943->

Titolo

Cultures in collision and conversation [[electronic resource] ] : essays in the intellectual history of the Jews / / David Berger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2011

ISBN

1-61811-791-2

1-61811-060-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 p.)

Collana

Judaism and Jewish life

Disciplina

296.3/9

Soggetti

Judaism - Relations

Intercultural communication - Religious aspects - Judaism

Judaism - History

Jews - History

Jews - Intellectual life

Messianic era (Judaism)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; The Cultural Environment: Challenge and Response; IDENTITY, IDEOLOGY AND FAITH:; JUDAISM AND GENERAL CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN TIMES; HOW DID NAHMANIDES PROPOSE TO RESOLVETHE MAIMONIDEAN CONTROVERSY?; MIRACLES AND THE NATURAL ORDER INNAHMANIDES*; POLEMIC, EXEGESIS, PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENCE:; MALBIM'S SECULAR KNOWLEDGE AND HISRELATIONSHIP TO THE SPIRIT OF THE HASKALAH; THE USES OF MAIMONIDESBY TWENTIETH CENTURY JEWRY; THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH STUDIES ON ITS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY; Interpreting the Bible; ""THE WISEST OF ALL MEN"": SOLOMON'S WISDOM

ON THE MORALITY OF THE PATRIARCHS IN JEWISH POLEMIC AND EXEGESISYearning for Redemption; THREE TYPOLOGICAL THEMES IN EARLY JEWISH MESSIANISM:; SOME IRONIC CONSEQUENCES OF MAIMONIDES' RATIONALIST APPROACH TO THE MESSIANIC AGE; SEPHARDIC AND ASHKENAZIC MESSIANISM IN THE MIDDLE AGES:; MACCABEES, ZEALOTS AND JOSEPHUS:; THE FRAGILITY OF RELIGIOUS



DOCTRINE:; Epilogue; Index