Judah Halevis Fideistic Scepticism In The Kuzari

Author : Ehud Krinis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110664747
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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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 124 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 : Ehud Krinis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110664844
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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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.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004694269
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Simone Luzzatto’s Scepticism in the Context of Early Modern Thought written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the most recent research on Jewish scepticism was inspired by the work of the early modern Venetian rabbi Simone Luzzatto, the first thinker in the history of Jewish thought to declare himself a sceptic and a follower of the New Academy. This collected volume shines new light on the intimate relationship between Luzzatto’s sceptical thinking and an era marked by paradoxes and contrasts between religious devotion and scientific rationalism, as well as between the rabbinic-biblical Jewish tradition and the open tendency towards engagement with non-Jewish philosophical, literary, scientific, and theological cultures. It plots out an original path along which to understand Luzzatto’s scepticism by pointing to the various facets of being a Jewish sceptic in seventeenth-century Italy.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004506624
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 1, 2022 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies. Contributions to the Review place special thematic emphasis on scepticism within Jewish thought and its links to other religious traditions and secular worldviews. The Review is interested in the tension at the heart of matters of reason and faith, rationalism and mysticism, theory and practice, narrativity and normativity, doubt and dogma. This volume features contributions by Reimund Leicht, Gitit Holzman, Jonathan Garb, Anna Lissa, Gianni Paganini, Adi Louria Hayon, Mark Marion Gondelman, and Jürgen Sarnowsky. This volume features contributions by Jeremy Phillip Brown, Libera Pisano, Jeffrey G. Amshalem, Maria Vittoria Comacchi, Jonatan Meir, Rebecca Kneller-Rowe, Isaac Slater, Michela Torbidoni, Guido Bartolucci, and Tamir Karkason.

Author : Jehuda Halevi
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ISBN 13 : 9781638233268
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kuzari written by Jehuda Halevi and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kuzari is one of the basic books of Jewish literature, a required text in the library of every educated Jew--and of every educated Christian who would understand the religion of Israel. The author, foremost poet and thinker of the Jewish Middle Ages, offers clear and usable delineations of the religion of Israel. In the easy style of a Platonic dialogue, he presents first a critique of Christianity and Islam, and then explores the nature of Israel's first religious faculty, the question of the "chosen" people, the implications of a "minority religion." Against those who accommodate to prevailing philosophical trends, Judah Halevi is blunt, frank and uncompromising in his discourse on the central teachings of Judaism: revelation, prophecy, the laws, the Holy Land, and the role of the Jewish people as spokesman for religious faith. Take a front seat in the debate arena as the sharpest minds debate on the fundamentals of religion, faith, and a diverse range of basic Jewish concepts. It took the esteemed 12th-century sage, Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi twenty years to complete this work. In its unique question-and-answer format it records an ongoing dialogue between the 8th-century king of the Khazars and a Rabbi. The depth and scope of the ideas discussed in this book are nothing short than brilliant, and the reader cannot help but be awed at the authoritative, wide-ranging virtuosity of Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi as "the rabbi" in the debate confidently repudiates the arguments of Judaism's detractors and demonstrates the superiority of Torah over any other religion or belief system.

Author : Jehuda Halevi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0805200754
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Kuzari written by Jehuda Halevi and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1987-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kuzari is one of the basic books of Jewish literature, a required text in the library of every educated Jew--and of every educated Christian who would understand the religion of Israel. The author, foremost poet and thinker of the Jewish Middle Ages, offers clear and usable delineations of the religion of Israel. In the easy style of a Platonic dialogue, he presents first a critique of Christianity and Islam, and then explores the nature of Israel's first religious faculty, the question of the "chosen" people, the implications of a "minority religion." Against those who accommodate to prevailing philosophical trends, Judah Halevi is blunt, frank and uncompromising in his discourse on the central teachings of Judaism: revelation, prophecy, the laws, the Holy Land, and the role of the Jewish people as spokesman for religious faith.

Author : Racheli Haliva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110553325
Total Pages : 186 pages
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Download or read book Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought written by Racheli Haliva and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tension between reason and revelation has occupied Jewish philosophers for centuries, who were committed, on the one hand, to defending Judaism, and, on the other hand, to remaining loyal to philosophical principles. Maimonides is considered the most prominent Jewish religious philosopher, whose aim was to reconcile philosophy, in particular Aristotelian philosophy, with the fundamental principles of Judaism. But many other Jewish thinkers, before and after him, also struggled with this task, raising the question whether it is possible to attain this reconciliation. The connection between philosophy and religion was often not an obvious one. As a consequence, it could serve in some cases as grounds for supporting Maimonides’ project, while in others it could lead to rejection. Scepticism and Anti septicism in Medieval Jewish Thought focuses on sceptical questions, methods, strategies, and approaches raised by Jewish thinkers in the Middle Ages. In a series of lectures, we examine the variety of attitudes presented by these thinkers, as well as the latest readings of contemporary scholars concerning those attitudes.

Author : Wout J. van Bekkum
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004527001
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religious Poetry of El'azar ben Ya'aqov ha-Bavli written by Wout J. van Bekkum and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive edition of Hebrew hymns composed by Eleazar the Babylonian, a prolific composer and scholar who lived in 13th-century Baghdad. His poetic language and style show much affinity with contemporary Sufism.

Author : Jonathan Garb
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004694234
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Does God Doubt? R. Gershon Henoch Leiner’s Thought in Its Contexts written by Jonathan Garb and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God Doubt? shows that Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzin considered God to be revealed as doubt. Thus, according to this profound and important nineteenth-century Hasidic leader, doubt is an essential aspect of the human condition, and especially of religious life. His position is shown to be remarkably bold and unique compared to kabbalistic writing, and especially to the Hasidic worlds to which he belonged. At the same time, the roots of his thought are located in earlier discussions of doubt as one of the highest parts of the divine world. Doubt about, in, and of God is part of the Hasidic contribution to modernity.

Author : Judah Halevi
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book The Kuzari written by Judah Halevi and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 194 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.