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Problems and Parables of Law

Author : Josef Stern
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143842115X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Problems and Parables of Law written by Josef Stern and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central topic in medieval Jewish philosophy and thought was the explanation of the Mosaic commandments. From Philo and Saadiah on, thinkers sought to uncover "reasons for the commandments" (ta'amei ha-mitzvot) both to demonstrate the rationality of divine legislation and to motivate performance of the commandments. Like many received topics, this enterprise was radically transformed in the hands of Maimonides. In this first book-length treatment of a subject that has been relatively overlooked by scholars since Isaac Heinemann's classic work in the 1950s, Josef Stern offers an original analysis of two major themes in Maimonides' explanation of the Law and its impact on Nahmanides. The first theme is Maimonides' reconceptualization of the huqqim, those commandments that were traditionally asserted either to have no reason or a reason that is unknown or unknowable. The second theme is Maimonides' application of his method of multi-leveled interpretation that treats texts as parables with "external" and "internal" meaning to the explanation of commandments with multiple reasons. Both of these innovative modes of explanation are adopted by Nahmanides, who refined and adapted Maimonides' structures of interpretation to express diametrically opposed contents. From this perspective there emerges a picture of the relation between these two seminal figures of medieval Judaism that is much more subtle than the received opinion that bluntly opposes them, the radical arch rationalist against the mystical traditionalist. Inquiry into ta'amei ha-mitzvot served as a locus for discussion of a broad range of philosophical topics: the attributes of God, the grounds of law and legal obligation, the structure of explanation and interpretation, idolatry, friendship and love, the status of astrology and magic, and attitudes toward the body. Stern demonstrates both the philosophical importance of these topics in Maimonides' and Nahmanides' thought and the relevance of their writings to contemporary philosophical discussions.

Problems and Parables of Law

Author : Josef Stern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780585068893
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Problems and Parables of Law written by Josef Stern and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A comparative examination of two Jewish philosophers views on Old Testament laws. Arguing that the two are not as radically opposed as has previously been argued, the author explore the impact of two elements of the Maimonidean revolution on the thought of Nahmanides. The first is Maimonides' idea of the problematic (or arbitrary) commandment, which he viewed as having reasons related to contingent historical context. The second, related idea was that explanations for all commandments should be modelled after the multilevel interpretations of parables, because often reasons were hidden from the people lest the commandments lose their impact. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Parables of Jesus and the Problems of the World

Author : Richard Q. Ford
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498232973
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Parables of Jesus and the Problems of the World written by Richard Q. Ford and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable is how extensively in each parable Jesus provides a subtle but rich array of unexpected possibilities hidden within the hierarchies of power so commonplace in his world. By doing so he profoundly addresses the perils inherent in the prerogatives of many of us living in today's world. In these ancient interpersonal tragedies, readers can discover modern global analogues--where the powerful still control the powerless and where others of us, immersed as we are in privilege, are still willing to side with control.

Jewish Legal Theories

Author : Leora Batnitzky
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1512601357
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Legal Theories written by Leora Batnitzky and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal Theories collects representative modern Jewish writings on law and provides short commentaries and annotations on these writings that situate them within Jewish thought and history, as well as within modern legal theory. The topics addressed by these documents include Jewish legal theory from the modern nation-state to its adumbration in the forms of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism in the German-Jewish context; the development of Jewish legal philosophy in Eastern Europe beginning in the eighteenth century; Ultra-Orthodox views of Jewish law premised on the rejection of the modern nation-state; the role of Jewish law in Israel; and contemporary feminist legal theory.

Two Models of Jewish Philosophy

Author : Daniel Rynhold
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019927486X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Two Models of Jewish Philosophy written by Daniel Rynhold and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work that illustrates how Jewish philosophy can make a genuine contribution to general philosophical debate, Daniel Rynhold attempts to formulate a model for the justification of practices by applying the methods of modern analytic philosophy to approaches to the rationalization of the commandments from the history of Jewish philosophy. Through critical analysis of the methods of Moses Maimonides and Joseph Soloveitchik, Rynhold argues against propositional approaches tojustifying practices that he terms Priority of Theory approaches and offers instead his own method, termed the Priority of Practice, which emphasizes the need for a more pragmatic take on this whole issue.

Maimonides the Universalist

Author : Menachem Kellner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800347456
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Maimonides the Universalist written by Menachem Kellner and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maimonides’ Mishneh torah presents not only a system of Jewish law, but also a system of values. This study focuses on the moral and philosophical meditations that close each volume of his code. The authors analyse these concluding passages to uncover the universalist outlook underlying Maimonides’ halakhic thought.

Hasidism on the Margin

Author : Shaul Magid
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299192733
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Hasidism on the Margin written by Shaul Magid and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hasidism on the Margin explores one of the most provocative and radical traditions of Hasidic thought, the school of Izbica and Radzin that Rabbi Gershon Henokh originated in nineteenth-century Poland. Shaul Magid traces the intellectual history of this strand of Judaism from medieval Jewish philosophy through centuries of Kabbalistic texts to the nineteenth century and into the present. He contextualizes the Hasidism of Izbica-Radzin in the larger philosophy and history of religions and provides a model for inquiry into other forms of Hasidism.

Parables Mean

Author : Wayne C. Fredrick
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412233887
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Parables Mean written by Wayne C. Fredrick and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue Isaiah 50:4 Be warned! Though it is fiction, Parables Mean deals with matters of faith. Your religious beliefs will be affected. Jesus and his band were no goody two-sandals. What does this book, Parables Mean, offer you? 1. It presents solutions to all the parables, showing the true mission of Jesus, and scrapes away the cover stories inserted by the writers and by the redacting of later churchmen. 2. It provides stories, motivations, logic, and allusions that Jesus would have noted to build his theology and mission. 3. It explains how Jesus tested and recruited people for his covert mission work, developed a curriculum for training them, and set the stage for discovery of his true goal. 4. It shows the planning and scheming done by Jesus to reverse a centuries-old view of God as a fearsome and demanding tyrant. 5. It identifies the middle-Bible period writers who were covertly trying to undo what the Pentateuch had envisioned as Gods words and acts. 6. It plots out the twists and turns that propelled the Jesus Academy into its final crisis, making Parables Mean a Whodunit and Why? Parts of the Old and New Testaments lead to different conclusions about Jesus and Moses than what the churches provide to members. The secret undercurrent in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke tells a coherent story about the strategies and goals of the mission of Jesus. That undercurrent revises the understanding of the temptation, the beatitudes, prayer, and parables. It changes beliefs regarding sin, repentance, salvation, apocalypse, prophecy, Moses, Mary, John the Baptist and much else. You may mourn the loss of treasured assurances, of magical stories and miracles. You may feel giddy in your new freedom. You may start working toward social change. You will have empathy for those who do not know what you know.

Parables of Coercion

Author : Seth Kimmel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022627828X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Parables of Coercion written by Seth Kimmel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on how questions surrounding the conversion of Muslims and Jews to Christianity in 16th and 17th century Spain drove religious reform and scholarly innovation.

Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought

Author : Racheli Haliva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110553325
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought written by Racheli Haliva and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tension between reason and revelation has occupied Jewish philosophers for centuries, who were committed, on the one hand, to defending Judaism, and, on the other hand, to remaining loyal to philosophical principles. Maimonides is considered the most prominent Jewish religious philosopher, whose aim was to reconcile philosophy, in particular Aristotelian philosophy, with the fundamental principles of Judaism. But many other Jewish thinkers, before and after him, also struggled with this task, raising the question whether it is possible to attain this reconciliation. The connection between philosophy and religion was often not an obvious one. As a consequence, it could serve in some cases as grounds for supporting Maimonides’ project, while in others it could lead to rejection. Scepticism and Anti septicism in Medieval Jewish Thought focuses on sceptical questions, methods, strategies, and approaches raised by Jewish thinkers in the Middle Ages. In a series of lectures, we examine the variety of attitudes presented by these thinkers, as well as the latest readings of contemporary scholars concerning those attitudes.

The Parable of the Sadhu

Author : Bowen McCoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780000835123
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Parable of the Sadhu written by Bowen McCoy and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Homilies on the Psalms

Author : Origen
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813233194
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Homilies on the Psalms written by Origen and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012 Dr. Marina Marin Pradel, an archivist at the Bayerische Stattsbibliotek in Munich, discovered that a thick 12th-century Byzantine manuscript, Codex Monacensis Graecus 314, contained twenty-nine of Origen’s Homilies on the Psalms, hitherto considered lost. Lorenzo Perrone of the University of Bologna, an internationally respected scholar of Origen, vouched for the identification and immediately began work on the scholarly edition that appeared in 2015 as the thirteenth volume of Origen’s works in the distinguished Griechische Christlichen Schrifsteller series. In an introductory essay Perrone provided proof that the homilies are genuine and demonstrated that they are, astonishingly, his last known work. Live transcripts, these collection homilies constitute our largest collection of actual Christian preaching from the pre-Constantinian period. In these homilies, the final expression of his mature thought, Origen displays, more fully than elsewhere, his understanding of the church and of deification as the goal of Christian life. They also give precious insights into his understanding of the incarnation and of human nature. They are the earliest example of early Christian interpretation of the Psalms, works at the heart of Christian spirituality. Historians of biblical interpretation will find in them the largest body of Old Testament interpretation surviving in his own words, not filtered through ancient translations into Latin that often failed to convey his intense philological acumen. Among other things, they give us new insights into the life of a third-century Greco-Roman metropolis, into Christian/Jewish relations, and into Christian worship. This translation, using the GCS as its basis, seeks to convey, as faithfully as possible, Origen’s own categories of thought. An introduction and notes relate the homilies to the theology and principles of interpretation in Origen’s larger work and to that work’s intellectual context and legacy.

Law in the New Testament

Author : J. Duncan M. Derrett
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597522317
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Law in the New Testament written by J. Duncan M. Derrett and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06-03 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a valuable book.....It is a work of wide learning. It deals with a topic which, as the author states in his preface, has been much neglected in spite of the fact that biblical scholars and theologians have always paid lip service to the importance of law in Jewish life. It is a book which should be on the library shelf of every serious student of the New Testament. - Fr. Pius, O.F.M.C. Franciscan Friary, Crawley. J. Duncan M. Derrett was, until his retirement, Professor of Oriental Laws at the University of London. He has author works on legal history as well as 'Jesus's Audience', 'Studies in the New Testament' (6 vols.), 'The Sermon on the Mount', 'The Anastasis', and 'The Bible and the Buddhists'.

The Anxiety of the Jurist

Author : Claudio Michelon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317044916
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Anxiety of the Jurist written by Claudio Michelon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this volume pay homage to Zenon Bańkowski, with a focus on problems concerning law’s normalization and the revitalizing force of anxiety. Ranging from political critique to methodological issues and from the role of human rights in development to the role of parables and analogy in legal reasoning, the contributions themselves are testament to the richness of Bańkowski’s scholarship, as well as to the applicability of his core ideas to a wide range of issues. Divided into five parts, the book focuses on the role and methods of the jurist; conceptions of legality and the experience of living under rules; jurisprudential issues affecting exchange and the market; and the burden and methods of legal judgement. It also includes Bańkowski’s 2011 valedictory lecture and a bibliography of his work. Comprising all original contributions, the contributors represent a balance of established, leading figures and younger, emerging scholars in the field of legal and social theory.

The Parables of Christ

Author : Roderick O. Ford
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514424835
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book The Parables of Christ written by Roderick O. Ford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parables of Christ is a simple and yet thought-provoking analysis of the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It carefully analyzes forty-eight of Jesus’s most important parables as the foundation of the New Testament gospel, and it places them within the context of the Old Testament law. The Parables of Christ is especially useful for those persons who are unfamiliar with Jesus’s fundamental teachings. But this book is also an innovative Bible-study companion that is very practical and useful for knowledgeable and experienced Christians, lawyers, pastors, and theologians.

The Road to Justice: The Bible and the law as cornerstones of civilisation and culture

Author : Eltjo JH Schrage
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1998951413
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Justice: The Bible and the law as cornerstones of civilisation and culture written by Eltjo JH Schrage and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between art, Christian culture and the law often receives attention. It is trite that law influences all human lives as well as culture and art. The law, however, does not only provide a context within which art and culture can develop, but it is also the cornerstone of civilisation and culture. On the other hand, we must contemplate whether civilisation and culture are necessary conditions for a legal system. This book consists of a compilation of essays narrating the influence of principles from the Bible – on which the Christian belief is premised and practised by Christians worldwide – on law and on culture. Consideration is given to the foundation of the law on different and well-known Biblical texts. The interplay between Christian principles vis-à-vis the law and culture is considered and unpacked in this research. In addition, copies of well-known art depicting scenes from the Bible enhance each chapter. The main author, the late Prof. Eltjo Schrage, passed away shortly before the book was published with the assistance of Prof. Jan Adriaan van der Walt, Dr Glynis van der Walt and Dr Hashali Hamukuaya.

Compassionate Justice

Author : Christopher D. Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781498214698
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Compassionate Justice written by Christopher D. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two parables that have become firmly lodged in popular consciousness and affection are the parable of the Good Samaritan and the parable of the Prodigal Son. These simple but subversive tales have had a significant impact historically on shaping the spiritual, aesthetic, moral, and legal traditions of Western civilization, and their capacity to inform debate on a wide range of moral and social issues remains as potent today as ever. Noting that both stories deal with episodes of serious interpersonal offending, and both recount restorative responses on the part of the leading characters, Compassionate Justice draws on the insights of restorative justice theory, legal philosophy, and social psychology to offer a fresh reading of these two great parables. It also provides a compelling analysis of how the priorities commended by the parables are pertinent to the criminal justice system today. The parables teach that the conscientious cultivation of compassion is essential to achieving true justice. Restorative justice strategies, this book argues, provide a promising and practical means of attaining to this goal of reconciling justice with compassion.