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Author : Judah (ha-Levi)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781598269611
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Kuzari written by Judah (ha-Levi) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judah Halevi
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Kuzari written by Judah Halevi and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Kuzari is one of the most famous works of the medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet Judah Halevi. It is regarded as one the most important apologetic works of Jewish philosophy. The Kuzari takes place during a conversion of some Khazar nobility to Judaism. Divided into five parts it takes the form of a dialogue between a rabbi and a pagan. The pagan is then mythologized as the king of the Khazars who has invited the rabbi to instruct him in the tenets of Judaism. The Kuzari's emphasis is on the uniqueness of the Jewish people. The ideas and style of the work played an important role in debates within the Haskalah or Jewish Enlightenment movement.
Author : Adam Shear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107404991
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900 written by Adam Shear and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judah Halevi's Book of the Kuzari is a defense of Judaism that has enjoyed an almost continuous transmission since its composition in the twelfth century. By surveying the activities of readers, commentators, copyists, and printers for more than 700 years, Adam Shear examines the ways that the Kuzari became a classic of Jewish thought. Today, the Kuzari is usually understood as the major statement of an anti-rationalist and ethnocentric approach to Judaism and is often contrasted with the rationalism and universalism of Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed. But this conception must be seen as a modern construction, and the reception history of the Kuzari demonstrates that many earlier readers of the work understood it as offering a way toward reconciling reason and faith and of negotiating between particularism and universalism.
Author : Yochanan Silman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791424629
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Philosopher and Prophet written by Yochanan Silman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates the various strata of Halevi's Book of Kuzari to the different periods of Halevi's philosophical development.
Author : Shalom Rosenberg
Publisher : Lambda
ISBN 13 : 9781933143224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (432 download)
Download or read book In the Footsteps of the Kuzari written by Shalom Rosenberg and published by Lambda. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Footsteps of the Kuzari is an exciting work that guides readers through Judaism's views on the most pressing philosophical issues of the day. Combining a keen sensitivity to the religious dilemmas of our day with the intellectual rigor of the university, this book serves as an introduction to Jewish philosophy, and unapologetically argues that Judaism presents a coherent and sophisticated religious worldview that is as relevant today as it has been for millennia. Building on the classic work of Jewish thought, The Kuzari, noted Orthodox thinker Prof. Shalom Rosenberg takes readers through the Jewish views that have been voiced throughout the ages and shows how they can be transformed into a compelling worldview in this postmodern age. Intellectually stimulating and philosophically creative, this important work made large waves when published in Hebrew and is now being offered to the English reading public. Take a tour through Jewish philosophy over the ages, from the Talmud to Maimonides to Rav Kook and beyond, and learn where the next stage of Jewish thought will take us.
Author : Ehud Krinis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110664844
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Judah Halevi’s Fideistic Scepticism in the Kuzari written by Ehud Krinis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As scepticism has rarely been studied in the context of the Arabic culture and its Judeo-Arabic sub-culture, it is small wonder that sceptical motifs of Judah Halevi’s classic theological The Kuzari (written ca. 1140) received very little scholarly attention so far. Thus, the present study seeks to shed light on Halevi’s wrestling with the dogmatic-rationalistic trends of his period from an angle of this much less studied perspective. As a by-product, this study is a contribution to the mainly uncultivated field of traces of scepticism in the Arabic culture.
Author : Diana Lobel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791493229
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Between Mysticism and Philosophy written by Diana Lobel and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing study of this important medieval Jewish poet and his relation to Islamic thought.
Author : Daniel H. Frank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826042
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy written by Daniel H. Frank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ninth to the fifteenth centuries Jewish thinkers living in Islamic and Christian lands philosophized about Judaism. Influenced first by Islamic theological speculation and the great philosophers of classical antiquity, and then in the late medieval period by Christian Scholasticism, Jewish philosophers and scientists reflected on the nature of language about God, the scope and limits of human understanding, the eternity or createdness of the world, prophecy and divine providence, the possibility of human freedom, and the relationship between divine and human law. Though many viewed philosophy as a dangerous threat, others incorporated it into their understanding of what it is to be a Jew. This Companion presents all the major Jewish thinkers of the period, the philosophical and non-philosophical contexts of their thought, and the interactions between Jewish and non-Jewish philosophers. It is a comprehensive introduction to a vital period of Jewish intellectual history.
Author : Second Son
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781690831723
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Reasonable Doubts: Breaking the Kuzari written by Second Son and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our mesorah about Matan Torah securely connects us to maamid Har Sinai - or so the Kuzari Argument would have you believe. Breaking the Kuzari is a fascinating exploration of one of the most popular arguments for Judaism. As the only book to focus exclusively on the Kuzari Argument, it is a must-read for anyone interested in the rational underpinnings of Judaism. Never before has the Kuzari Argument been so clearly laid out or had its often-hidden premises so insightfully examined. This eye-opening exploration is essential reading for everyone from those who think that their emunah is based on self-evident truths to those who have gone Off the Derech. Many frum people believe that arguments such as the Kuzari are so strong that no one can reject Orthodoxy on intellectual grounds. But is this true? Are people who go Off the Derech broken, the victims of trauma or their own uncontrollable desires? For those who believe the Kuzari Argument is unassailable, this book will help them evaluate an important component of their beliefs. For the intellectually curious who are exploring the question of frumkeit's truth, this book will help them understand that there is more than one rational answer to that question. And for those who are Off the Derech, this book will validate their repudiation of the Kuzari Argument. Anyone with a stake the truth of Judaism needs to know if the Kuzari Argument is sound, and only Breaking the Kuzari definitively answers that question. Buy your copy now, and delve into the fascinating details of this famous argument! The Second Son has been an active and prolific participant in the Jewish skeptic blogosphere and online community for over a decade, where he has been using the pseudonym G*3 since 2008. He has been blogging under the name "The Second Son" since 2009 about various intellectual issues with Orthodox Judaism and with religion in general. Fellow bloggers and readers have described him as, "erudite and insightful," and his writing as, "some of the most thoughtful, balanced, and intelligent comments," in the Jewish blogosphere.
Author : Ehud Krinis
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503543963
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (439 download)
Download or read book God's Chosen People written by Ehud Krinis and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The systematic formulation of the status of the People of Israel as the Chosen People of God stands at the heart of Judah Halevi's famous theological and polemical treatise - the Kuzari. The idea of the Chosen People is an ancient one and is deeply rooted in Judaism. Through a wide-ranging textual and phenomenological investigation, this book highlights the novel and systematic presentation of the Chosen People in the Kuzari and shows how Judah Halevi draws, in a creative manner, on terms, concepts, and themes borrowed from the Shi'i doctrine of the Imam as presented in Shi'i literature. This book presents a historical perspective for understanding the basis of Judah Halevi's attraction to Shi'i theology, with its unique category of God's Chosen. The polemical argument over the issue of the legitimate successor to leadership in early Islam, as well as the debate around the legitimate successor-group in medieval interreligious disputes, emerges as the historical background for the seemingly surprising link between the Shi'i Imam doctrine and the idea of the Chosen People in Judah Halevi's thought. This link on the one hand portrays Halevi as a bold, original thinker and, on the other, portrays the Shi'i Imam doctrine as exceedingly fruitful and reaching beyond the bounds of Islam.
Author : Peter B. Golden
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004160426
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The World of the Khazars written by Peter B. Golden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Khazar Empire was one of the major states of medieval Eurasia. Drawing on a variety of disciplines (history, linguistics, archaeology, literary studies), the papers in this volume shed new light on many of the disputed topics in Khazar history.
Author : Tehilla Abramov
Publisher : Taschen
ISBN 13 : 9781568713519
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The Secret of Jewish Femininity written by Tehilla Abramov and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hillel Halkin
Publisher : Jewish Encounters
ISBN 13 : 0805242066
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Yehuda Halevi written by Hillel Halkin and published by Jewish Encounters. This book was released on 2010 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profile of the Zionist poet and philosopher offers insight into his representation of 11th- and 12th-century Andalusian Spain, analyzes the religious disciplines that informed his work and traces his fateful voyage to Palestine.
Author : Rabbi Avraham Davis
Publisher : Jonathan David Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781931681858
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Metsudah Chumash written by Rabbi Avraham Davis and published by Jonathan David Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn, Understand and Enjoy with Metsudah Linear Translations! The Five Books of the Torah have been fully translated in the pleasing linear style of the rest of the Metsudah Classic Series. Featuring a line by line translation of the text and Rashi's commentary, with helpful explanatory notes that identify Rashi's sources and pinpoint the difficulty Rashi wishes to clarify. Now available in handy 6x9 student size. Great as a gift - for your friend or for yourself.
Author : Judah (ha-Levi)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book On the Sea written by Judah (ha-Levi) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in northern Spain sometime before 1075, Yehuda Halevi was the preeminent Hebrew poet of 12-century Andalusia and author of the religious treatise The Book of the Kuzari. In 1140 he set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The poems of ON THE SEA, braiding scriptural quotation and a more personal voice, record the poet's perilous voyage to Alexandria, from whence Halevi would depart for Jerusalem -on which voyage he disappeared.
Author : David Ellenson
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 0878200959
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (782 download)
Download or read book After Emancipation written by David Ellenson and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Ellenson prefaces this fascinating collection of twenty-three essays with a remarkably candid account of his intellectual journey from boyhood in Virginia to the scholarly immersions in the history, thought, and literature of the Jewish people that have informed his research interests in a long and distinguished academic career. Ellenson, President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, has been particularly intrigued by the attempts of religious leaders in all denominations of Judaism, from Liberal to Neo-Orthodox, to redefine and reconceptualize themselves and their traditions in the modern period as both the Jewish community and individual Jews entered radically new realms of possibility and change. The essays are grouped into five sections. In the first, Ellenson reflects upon the expression of Jewish values and Jewish identity in contemporary America, explains his debt to Jacob Katz's socio-religious approach to Jewish history, and shows how the works of non-Jewish social historian Max Weber highlight the tensions between the universalism of western thought and Jewish demands for a particularistic identity. In the second section, "The Challenge of Emanicpation," he indicates how Jewish religious leaders in nineteenth-century Europe labored to demonstrate that the Jewish religion and Jewish culture were worthy of respect by the larger gentile world. In a third section, "Denominational Responses," Ellenson shows how the leaders of Liberal and Orthodox branches of Judaism in Central Europe constructed novel parameters for their communities through prayer books, legal writings, sermons, and journal articles. The fourth section, "Modern Responsa," takes a close look at twentieth-century Jewish legal decisions on new issues such as the status of woemn, fertility treatments, and even the obligations of the Israeli government towards its minority populations. Finally, review essays in the last section analyze a few landmark contemporary works of legal and liturgical creativity: the new Israeli Masorti prayer book, David Hartman's works on covenantal theology, and Marcia Falk's Book of Blessings. As Ellenson demonstrates, "The reality of Jewish cultural and social integration into the larger world after Emancipation did not signal the demise of Judaism. Instead, the modern setting has provided a challenging context where the ongoing creativity and adaptability of Jewish religious leaders of all stripes has been tested and displayed."
Author : Yehuda Halper
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004468765
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato written by Yehuda Halper and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Goldstein-Goren Book Award from the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning of the divine among European and North African Jews of the 12th-15th centuries. Without direct access to Plato, their understanding of Socrates is indirect, based on legendary material, on fragmentary quotations from Plato, or on Aristotle. Out of these sources, Jewish authors of this period formed two distinct views of Socrates: one as a wise, ascetic, monotheist, and the other as a vocal skeptic. The latter view has its roots in Plato's Apology where Socrates describes his divine mandate to question all knowledge, including knowledge of the divine. After exploring how this and similar questions arise in the works of Judah Halevi and the Hebrew Averroes, Halper traces how such open-questioning of the divine arises in the works of Maimonides, Jacob Anatoli, Gersonides, and Abraham Bibago.
