03851nam 2200709 a 450 991025875430332120240516022321.09781618117915161811791297816181106021618110608(CKB)2550000000087134(EBL)3110448(OCoLC)922977643(SSID)ssj0000589963(PQKBManifestationID)12213641(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000589963(PQKBWorkID)10665116(PQKB)10913168(MiAaPQ)EBC3110448(ScCtBLL)6c354fbc-f8be-4553-9c2c-895e1606f07d(EXLCZ)99255000000008713420110110d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCultures in collision and conversation essays in the intellectual history of the Jews /David Berger1st ed.Boston Academic Studies Press20111 online resource (450 p.)Judaism and Jewish lifeDescription based upon print version of record.9781936235247 1936235242 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 WISDOMON 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; IndexIn Cultures in Collision and Conversation, David Berger addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered by this issue in medieval and modern times; the impact of Christian challenges and differing philosophical orientations on Jewish interpretation of the Bible; and Messianic visions, movements, and debates from antiquity to the present. These essays include a monograph-length study of Jewish attitudes toward general culture in medieval and early modern times, analyses of the thought of Maimonides and Nahmanides, an assessment of the reactions to the most recent messianic movement in Jewish history, and reflections on the value of the academic study of Judaism.Judaism and Jewish LifeJudaismRelationsIntercultural communicationReligious aspectsJudaismJudaismHistoryJewsHistoryJewsIntellectual lifeMessianic era (Judaism)JudaismRelations.Intercultural communicationReligious aspectsJudaism.JudaismHistory.JewsHistory.JewsIntellectual life.Messianic era (Judaism)296.3/9Berger David1943-738955MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910258754303321Cultures in collision and conversation1945187UNINA