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Book Synopsis Before Maimonides by : Y. Tzvi Langermann
Download or read book Before Maimonides written by Y. Tzvi Langermann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All can agree that the achievement of Moses Maimonides (d. 1204) set the standard for subsequent works of “Jewish philosophy”. But just what were the contours of philosophical-scientific inquiry that Maimonides replaced? A fairly large array of diverse texts have been studied, but no comprehensive picture has yet emerged. The newly discovered Hebrew dialogue published here has points of contact of various depth with most of the major works of pre-Maimonidean thought. It shares as well influences from without, especially from the Islamic kalam. The dialogue thus presents, in an engaging literary form, a clear and detailed snapshot of pre-Maimonidean philosophy and science.
Download or read book Maimonides written by Sherwin B. Nuland and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherwin B. Nuland—best-selling author of How We Die—focuses his surgeon’s eye and writer’s pen on this greatest of rabbis, most intriguing of Jewish philosophers, and most honored of Jewish doctors. Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician, a dazzling Torah scholar, a daring philosopher. Eight hundred years after his death, his notions about God, faith, the afterlife, and the Messiah still stir debate; his life as a physician still inspires; and the enigmas of his character still fascinate. Nuland's portrait of Maimonides that makes his life, his times, and his thought accessible to the general reader as they have never been before.
Book Synopsis Maimonides, On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them (Formerly Known as On the Causes of Symptoms) by : Gerrit Bos
Download or read book Maimonides, On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them (Formerly Known as On the Causes of Symptoms) written by Gerrit Bos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Maimonides’ On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them (formerly known as On the Causes of Symptoms), Gerrit Bos offers a new critical edition and translation of the original Arabic text and the medieval Hebrew translations.
Book Synopsis Maimonides’s Yahweh by : Amy Karen Downey
Download or read book Maimonides’s Yahweh written by Amy Karen Downey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides) remains a mystery to many within evangelical Christianity. However, he is lauded as a second Moses by many within modern Judaism. Does he deserve that title? Maimonides's via negativa created a rationale for rejecting the messiahship claims of Jesus in Rabbinic Judaism. Therefore, this book seeks to illustrate that Maimonides, in his desire to create an anti-Christian apologetic regarding the incarnation, fashioned a Judaism that does not reflect the truths of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and developed a Judaism that was untenable for the Jewish people of the twenty-first century. Many Jewish people today are turning in a thousand and one different directions for spiritual answers, but not in the only way that will offer the way to God: Jesus of Nazareth (John 14:6). This work examines the history of Maimonides, his teachings, and an apologetic approach to bring the gospel back to the Jewish people (Rom 1:16).
Book Synopsis A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by : Isaac Husik
Download or read book A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy written by Isaac Husik and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History by : Jeffrey A. Bernstein
Download or read book Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History written by Jeffrey A. Bernstein and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history. In Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History, Jeffrey A. Bernstein explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history. For Bernstein, Strauss shows that a close study of the history of philosophyfrom the ancients to medievals to modernsis necessary for one to appreciate the fundamental distinction between the forms of life Strauss terms Jerusalem and Athens, that is, order through revealed Law and free philosophical thought, respectively. Through an investigation of Strausss published texts; examination of his intellectual biography and history; and making use of correspondence, archival materials, and seminar transcripts, Bernstein shows how Strausss concern with the relation between Judaism and philosophy spanned his entire career. His findings will be of use to those interested in the thought of Strauss, the history of Jewish thought, and the relation between religion, philosophy, and politics.
Book Synopsis Popular History of the Jews by : Heinrich Graetz
Download or read book Popular History of the Jews written by Heinrich Graetz and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Evil and Providence in Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed by : Modestus Anyaegbu
Download or read book Evil and Providence in Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed written by Modestus Anyaegbu and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maimonides’s rationalist rejection and interpretation of anthropomorphism play a major part in his reading of the problem of evil and providence in the guide of the perplexed. The debate has been on finding an explanation as to why the righteous suffer and the vicious prosper in a world under the providence of a divine Creator. The anthropomorphic bent given to the legendary case of the biblical Job has given us the concept of God as a personal agent. But confronted with the reality of his innocent suffering, this image of God leaves much to be desired. We shall argue that Maimonides’s theory of providence as consequent upon the intellect and evil as consequent upon the absence of intellectual perfection are based on the concept of God as existence. It is the absence of intellectual perfection that marks man qua animal and leaves him open to chance occurrences and evil. A Promotional Write-Up: “The present work places before us the strange position and –it must be said—a little bit shocking to us, of the great Jewish thinker on the question of providence. Only the intelligent, that is to say, the human beings who have effectively actualized their intellects and have come to an accomplished knowledge, are considered and personally protected by the Eternal. In other words, the traditional piety that is usually asked of the believers by religious authorities is not sufficient. This piety is still marked by illusion and does not procure for man the true knowledge of God which is worthy of him. The individual ought to overcome pietistic representations in order to open himself to divine truth which is accessible only through knowledge. This is what the Book of Job illustrates . . . At the time when the actuality does not cease to present before us the question of the status of religion and the religious within modernity, the attempt by Maimonides to articulate these two styles carries an indisputable force of conviction as shown with abundant evidence in the work presented by Modestus Anyaegbu.” —Jean-Michel Counet, president of the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Download or read book Maimonides written by Louis Grossmann and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Supper at Emmaus by : Glenn W. Olsen
Download or read book Supper at Emmaus written by Glenn W. Olsen and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supper at Emmaus traces various important intellectual topics from the ancient world to the modern period. Generally, as in its treatment of the question of whether the long-standing contrast between cyclical and linear views of history is helpful, it introduces important thinkers who have considered the question. A preoccupation of the book is the appearance and reappearance across the centuries of patterns used to organize temporal and cultural experience. After an opening essay on transcendental truth and cultural relativism, the second chapter traces a distinction, common in historical writings during the past two centuries, between an alleged ancient classical "cyclic" view of time and history, used to describe the claimed repetitiveness of and similarities between historical events ("nothing is new under the sun"), and a contrasting Jewish-Christian linear view, sometimes described as providential in that it moves through a series of unique events to some end intended by God. In the latter, history is "about something," the education of the human race or the redemption of humankind. As in each of the remaining essays, the book then attempts to draw out the limitations of what the current consensus on this topic has become. It does this for such things as our current understanding of religious toleration, humanism, natural law, and teleology. Some of the essays, such as those on debate about Augustine's understanding of marriage or the concluding illustrated essay on the baroque city of Lecce, are published for the first time. Others are based on previously published contributions to the scholarly literature, though generally each of these chapters concludes with a postscript that engages with current scholarly debate on the subject.
Download or read book Annals of Medical History written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis An Analysis of Moses Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed by : Mark Scarlata
Download or read book An Analysis of Moses Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed written by Mark Scarlata and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the great medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed attempts to explain the perplexities of biblical language—and apparent inconsistencies in the text—in the light of philosophy and scientific reason. Composed as a letter to a student, The Guide aims to harmonize Aristotelian principles with the Hebrew Bible and argues that God must be understood as both unified and incorporeal. Engaging both contemporary and ancient scholars, Maimonides fluidly moves from cosmology to the problem of evil to the end goal of human happiness. His intellectual breadth and openness makes The Guide a lasting model of creative synthesis in biblical studies and philosophical theology.
Book Synopsis A Social and Religious History of the Jews: High Middle Ages, 500-1200 by : Salo Wittmayer Baron
Download or read book A Social and Religious History of the Jews: High Middle Ages, 500-1200 written by Salo Wittmayer Baron and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
Book Synopsis History of Islamic Philosophy by : Oliver Leaman
Download or read book History of Islamic Philosophy written by Oliver Leaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic philosophy has often been treated as being largely of historical interest, belonging to the history of ideas rather than to philosophical study. This volume successfully overturns that view. Emphasizing the living nature and rich diversity of the subject, it examines the main thinkers and schools of thought, discusses the key concepts of Islamic philosophy and covers a vast geographical area. This indispensable reference tool includes a comprehensive bibliography and an extensive index.
Book Synopsis Haskalah and History by : Shmuel Feiner
Download or read book Haskalah and History written by Shmuel Feiner and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘This impressive study will doubtless come to be considered one of the definitive works in the intellectual history of the Jewish Enlightenment . . . The outstanding nature of this work, its conceptual clarity, and its penetrating analysis make it an exceptional piece of historical research.’ From the Arnold Wiznitzer Prize citation
Download or read book The Jewish Literary Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
