Modern Scholarship In The Study Of Torah

Author : Shalom Carmy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1568214502
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah written by Shalom Carmy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal thrust of this book is to discover whether, and to what extent, the methods of modern scholarship can become part and parcel of the study of Torah.

Author : Tamás Turán
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110395517
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary written by Tamás Turán and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Habsburg Empire was one of the first regions where the academic study of Judaism took institutional shape in the nineteenth century. In Hungary, scholars such as Leopold and Immanuel Löw, David Kaufmann, Ignaz Goldziher, Wilhelm Bacher, and Samuel Krauss had a lasting impact on the Wissenschaft des Judentums (“Science of Judaism”). Their contributions to Biblical, rabbinic and Semitic studies, Jewish history, ethnography and other fields were always part of a trans-national Jewish scholarly network and the academic universe. Yet Hungarian Jewish scholarship assumed a regional tinge, as it emerged at an intersection between unquelled Ashkenazi yeshiva traditions, Jewish modernization movements, and Magyar politics that boosted academic Orientalism in the context of patriotic historiography. For the first time, this volume presents an overview of a century of Hungarian Jewish scholarly achievements, examining their historical context and assessing their ongoing relevance.

Author : Ilan Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134642970
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Women's Torah Study written by Ilan Fuchs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership. Jewish Women’s Torah Study addresses the question of women's integration in the halachic-religious system at this pivotal intersection. The contemporary debate regarding women’s Torah study first emerged in the second half of the 19th century. As women’s status in general society changed, offering increased legal rights and opportunities for education, a debate on the need to change women’s participation in Torah study emerged. Orthodoxy was faced with the question: which parts, if any, of modernity should be integrated into Halacha? Exemplifying the entire array of Orthodox responses to modernity, this book is a valuable addition to the scholarship of Judaism in the modern era and will be of interest to students and scholars of Religion, Gender Studies and Jewish Studies.

Author : Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190218711
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible and the Believer written by Marc Zvi Brettler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the Bible be approached both as sacred scripture and as a historical and literary text? For many people, it must be one or the other. How can we read the Bible both ways? The Bible and the Believer brings together three distinguished biblical scholars--one Jewish, one Catholic, and one Protestant--to illustrate how to read the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament critically and religiously. Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington tackle a dilemma that not only haunts biblical scholarship today, but also disturbs students and others exposed to biblical criticism for the first time, either in university courses or through their own reading. Failure to resolve these conflicting interpretive strategies often results in rejection of either the critical approach or the religious approach--or both. But the authors demonstrate how biblical criticism--the process of establishing the original contextual meaning of biblical texts with the tools of literary and historical analysis--need not undermine religious interpretations of the Bible, but can in fact enhance them. They show how awareness of new archeological evidence, cultural context, literary form, and other tools of historical criticism can provide the necessary preparation for a sound religious reading. And they argue that the challenges such study raises for religious belief should be brought into conversation with religious tradition rather than deemed grounds for dismissing either that tradition or biblical criticism. Guiding readers through the history of biblical exegesis within the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faith traditions, The Bible and the Believer bridges an age-old gap between critical and religious approaches to the Old Testament.

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Publisher : Ben Yehuda Press
ISBN 13 : 0976986248
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School Tanakh Companion to the Book of Samuel written by and published by Ben Yehuda Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bible study in the spirit of modern and open Orthodox Judaism.

Author : Adele Berlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199730040
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion written by Adele Berlin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion has been the go-to resource for students, scholars, and researchers in Judaic Studies since its 1997 publication. Now, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, Second Edition focuses on recent and changing rituals in the Jewish community that have come to the fore since the 1997 publication of the first edition, including the growing trend of baby-naming ceremonies and the founding of gay/lesbian synagogues. Under the editorship of Adele Berlin, nearly 200 internationally renowned scholars have created a new edition that incorporates updated bibliographies, biographies of 20th-century individuals who have shaped the recent thought and history of Judaism, and an index with alternate spellings of Hebrew terms. Entries from the previous edition have been be revised, new entries commissioned, and cross-references added, all to increase ease of navigation research." -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004317376
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tamar Ross: Constructing Faith written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamar Ross, Professor of Jewish Philosophy (Emerita) at Bar-Ilan University, is a constructive theologian who has made original and important contributions to feminist Orthodoxy.

Author : Martin Goodman
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
ISBN 13 : 9780199280322
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies written by Martin Goodman and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.

Author : Alan Kadish
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644695367
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Intellectual Tradition written by Alan Kadish and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship. In this book, the authors suggest that there is a series of common principles that can be extracted from the Jewish intellectual tradition that have broad, even life-changing, implications for individual and societal achievement. These principles include respect for tradition while encouraging independent, often disruptive thinking; a precise system of logical reasoning in pursuit of the truth; universal education continuing through adulthood; and living a purposeful life. The main objective of this book is to understand the historical development of these principles and to demonstrate how applying them judiciously can lead to greater intellectual productivity, a more fulfilling existence, and a more advanced society.

Author : Miri Freud-Kandel
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802071164
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology written by Miri Freud-Kandel and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Louis Jacobs, the quest—the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith—was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by general religious crisis, of an observant, committed, but intellectually curious Judaism that empowered individual seekers to address challenges to faith. In Orthodox Judaism at the time a battle was under way for religious control. Generating a widespread controversy in British Jewry known as the ‘Jacobs Affair’, his thought offers a lens for examining the trajectory of Orthodoxy. In a contemporary context marked by the changing cultural and intellectual concerns of a ‘post-secular’ age, the focus of some of these debates over religious control has shifted. Yet Jacobs’ emphasis on a personal quest is as relevant as ever, perhaps more so. This first book-length analysis of his theology unpacks the building blocks of his thought. It argues that, despite its particularities and limitations, his approach can provide a powerful model for contemporary religious seekers in the context of a growing impetus away from established, denominationally bound forms of religion. Many orthodox believers across a range of faiths continue to prefer the certainty of unquestionable religious truth claims rather than pursuing a subjective search for religious meaning. For those seeking alternative models for the contemporary Jewish quest, a reconsideration of Jacobs’ theology can offer valuable tools.