Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought
Title | Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Diamond |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 2019-02-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1789624983 |
The first critical study of how Maimonides has been read by leading Orthodox rabbis in our time shows that some have tried to liberate themselves from his influence, others have built on his ideas generating vibrant controversy, and yet others have sought to recreate Maimonides in their own image.
Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought
Title | Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought PDF eBook |
Author | James Arthur Diamond |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Jewish philosophy |
ISBN | 9781800343344 |
The first critical study of how Maimonides has been read by leading Orthodox rabbis in our time shows that some have tried to liberate themselves from his influence, others have built on his ideas generating vibrant controversy, and yet others have sought to recreate Maimonides in their own image.
REINVENTING MAIMONIDES IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THOUGHT.
Title | REINVENTING MAIMONIDES IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THOUGHT. PDF eBook |
Author | JAMES A.. KELLNER DIAMOND (MENACHEM.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781835539958 |
Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People
Title | Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People PDF eBook |
Author | Menachem Kellner |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 181 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1438408668 |
Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People explores Maimonides' philosophical psychology, his ethics, his views on prophecy, providence, and immortality, his understanding of the place of gentiles in the Messianic area, his attitude toward proselytes, his answer to the question, "Who is a Jew?", his conception of the nature of Torah, and his arguments concerning the nature of the Chosen People. With respect to each of these issues, Kellner shows that Maimonides adopted positions that reflected his emphasis on nurture over nature and his insistence that it is intellectual perfection and not ethnic affiliation which is crucial.
Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority
Title | Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority PDF eBook |
Author | Menachem Kellner |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 149 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1438408676 |
Moses Maimonides, medieval Judaism's leading legist and philosopher, and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish self-understanding, held a view of Judaism which maintained the authority of the Talmudic rabbis in matters of Jewish law while allowing for free and open inquiry in matters of science and philosophy. Maimonides affirmed, not the superiority of the "moderns" (the scholars of his and subsequent generations) over the "ancients" (the Tannaim and Amoraim, the Rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud) but the inherent equality of the two. The equality presented here is not equality of halakhic authority, but equality of ability, of essential human characteristics. In order to substantiate these claims, Kellner explores the related idea that Maimonides does not adopt the notion of "the decline of the generations," according to which each succeeding generation, or each succeeding epoch, is in some significant and religiously relevant sense inferior to preceding generations or epochs.
Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism
Title | Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism PDF eBook |
Author | Menachem Kellner |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 2006-09-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 190982108X |
Maimonides’ vision of Judaism was deeply elitist, but at the same time profoundly universalistic. He was highly critical of the regnant Jewish culture of his day, which he perceived as so heavily influenced by ancient Jewish mysticism as to be debased. While focusing on that critique, Menachem Kellner skilfully and accessibly demonstrates how Maimonides used philosophy to purify a corrupted and paganized religion, and to present distinctions fundamental to Judaism as institutional, sociological, and historical, rather than ontological. In Maimonides’ hands, metaphysical distinctions are translated into moral challenges.
Science in the Bet Midrash
Title | Science in the Bet Midrash PDF eBook |
Author | Menachem Marc Kellner |
Publisher | Academic Studies PRess |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
This book explores the religious thought of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), the single most influential Jew of the last thousand years. While covering many aspects of his religious philosophy, the central focus of these essays is the way Maimonides elucidated and expressed the universalistic thrust of the Jewish tradition.