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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY FOR JEWISH PHILOSOPHY
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| By: |
David Novak, Norbert M. Samuelson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£94.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0819179256 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780819179258 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA |
| Pub. date: |
28 December, 1990 |
| Series: |
Studies in Judaism |
| Pages: |
426 |
| Description: |
This volume contains papers presented at the 1986, 1987 and 1988 annual meetings of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy. The articles reveal the views of Jewish philosphers on issues in Jewish religious thought such as the topics of hermeneutics, God-talk and idolatry. |
| Synopsis: |
This book grew out of three annual meetings (1987, 1988, and 1989) of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy. The essays included in this volume deal with major issues of Jewish faith in our age and present a diversity of interpretations and positions by the leading Jewish thinkers in North America. Contents: Judaism and God-Talk: Eternal Truths in Changing Form; Jewish Philosophy in Covenantal Context; There's No God Unless God Talks: A Study of Max Kadushin as Rabbinic Pragmatist; Judaism and God-Talk; The Positive Contribution of Negative Theology; In Defense of Images; Idolatry and Love of Appearances: Maimonides and Plato on False Wisdom; Judaism and the Varieties of Idolatrous Experience; The Inevitability of Idolatry; Basic Concepts in Rabbinic Hermeneutics; Hermeneutics in Contemporary Jewish Ethics; Midrash and History in Holocaust Interpretation; Buber's Biblical Hermeneutics and Narrative Biblical Theology. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University Press of America |
| Returns: |
Returnable |