02923nam 2200637 a 450 99632804530331620170814163901.01-61811-791-21-61811-060-8(CKB)2550000000087134(EBL)3110448(OCoLC)922977643(SSID)ssj0000589963(PQKBManifestationID)12213641(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000589963(PQKBWorkID)10665116(PQKB)10913168(MiAaPQ)EBC3110448(EXLCZ)99255000000008713420110110d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCultures in collision and conversation[electronic resource] essays in the intellectual history of the Jews /David BergerBoston Academic Studies Press20111 online resource (450 p.)Judaism and Jewish lifeDescription based upon print version of record.1-936235-24-2 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; IndexJudaism and Jewish LifeJudaismRelationsIntercultural communicationReligious aspectsJudaismJudaismHistoryJewsHistoryJewsIntellectual lifeMessianic era (Judaism)JudaismRelations.Intercultural communicationReligious aspectsJudaism.JudaismHistory.JewsHistory.JewsIntellectual life.Messianic era (Judaism)296.3/9Berger David1943-738955MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996328045303316Cultures in collision and conversation1945187UNISA