Science in the bet midrash : studies in Maimonides / / Menachem Kellner.
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| Superior document: | Emunot : Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Emunot.
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| Physical Description: | 392 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Approaches to the study of Maimonides
- Introduction to part one, Approaches to the study of Maimonides
- Reading Rambam-approaches to the interpretation of Maimonides
- Strauss' Maimonides vs. Maimonides' Maimonides : could Maimonides have been both enlightened and Orthodox?
- The literary character of the Mishneh Torah : on the art of writing in Maimonides' Halakhic works
- Is Maimonides' ideal person austerely rationalist?
- Part II. Religious faith and dogma
- Introduction to part two: Religious faith and dogma
- Heresy and the nature of faith in medieval Jewish philosophy
- What is heresy?
- Maimonides' thirteen principles and the structure of the Guide of the perplexed
- Maimonides, Crescas, and Abravanel on Ex. 20:2 : a medieval Jewish exegetical dispute
- Could Maimonides get into Rambam's heaven?
- Returning the crown to its ancient glory : Marc Shapiro's the limits of Orthodox theology : Maimonides' thirteen principles reappraised
- The virtue of faith
- Part III. Science and Torah
- Introduction to part three: Science and Torah
- On the status of the astronomy and physics in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and Guide of the perplexed : a chapter in the history of science
- Maimonides on the science of the Mishneh Torah : provisional or permanent?
- Maimonides' allegiances to science and Judaism
- Faith, science, and orthodoxy
- Part IV. Universalism
- Introduction to part four: Universalism
- Chosenness not chauvinism : Maimonides on the chosen people
- Was Maimonides truly universalist?
- Maimonides' true religion : for Jews, or all humanity?
- Spirituality and a life of holiness : how one lives a holy life and who can do it.