Encountering the medieval in modern Jewish thought / edited by James A. Diamond and Aaron W. Hughes.
The term “medieval” performs a great deal more intellectual work in modern Jewish Thought than simply acting as a referent to a particular historical era. During the nineteenth century, often for Jews who were increasingly alienated from their own tradition, the “medieval” functioned primarily as a...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought / James A. Diamond and Aaron W. Hughes
- Chapter One “Medieval” and the Politics of Nostalgia: Ideology, Scholarship, and the Creation of the Rational Jew / Aaron W. Hughes
- Chapter Two On the Possibility of a Hidden Christian Will: Methodological Pitfalls in the Study of Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Sarah Pessin
- Chapter Three Lessing in Jerusalem: Modern Religion, Medieval Orientalism, and the Idea of Perfection / Zachary Braiterman
- Chapter Four R. Abraham Isaac Kook and Maimonides: A Contemporary Mystic’s Embrace of Medieval Rationalism / James A. Diamond
- Chapter Five On Myth, History, and the Study of Hasidism: Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem / Claire E. Sufrin
- Chapter Six What S. Y. Agnon Taught Gershom Scholem About Jewish History / Kenneth Hart Green
- Chapter Seven Constructed and Denied: “The Talmud” from the Brisker Rav to the Mishneh Torah / Sergey Dolgopolski
- Chapter Eight Escaping the Scholastic Paradigm: The Dispute Between Strauss and His Contemporaries About How to Approach Islamic and Jewish Medieval Philosophy / Joshua Parens
- Chapter Nine Justifying Philosophy and Restoring Revelation: Assessing Strauss’s Medieval Return / Randi L. Rashkover
- Chapter Ten Echo of the Otherwise: Ethics of Transcendence and the Lure of Theolatry / Elliot R. Wolfson
- Index.