Rabbi Moses

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761860924
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbi Moses written by Jacob Neusner and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exercise in the systematic recourse to anachronism as a theological-exegetical mode of apologetics. Specifically, Neusner demonstrates the capacity of the Rabbinic sages to read ideas attested in their own day as authoritative testaments to — to them — ancient times. Thus, Scripture was read as integral testimony to the contemporary scene. About a millennium — 750 B.C. E. to 350 C. E. — separates Scripture’s prophets from the later sages of the Mishnah and the Talmud. It is quite natural to recognize evidence for differences over a long period of time. Yet Judaism sees itself as a continuum and overcomes difference. The latecomers portray the ancients like themselves. “In our image, after our likeness” captures the current aspiration. The sages accommodated the later documents in their canon by finding the traits of their own time in the record of the remote past. They met the challenges to perfection that the sages brought about. Of what does the process of harmonization consist? To answer that question the author surveys the presentation of the prophets by the rabbis, beginning with Moses. To overcome the gap, Rabbinic sages turn Moses into a sage like themselves. The prophet performs wonders. The sage sets forth reasonable rulings. The conclusion expands on this account of matters to show the categorical solution that the sages adopted for themselves, and that is the happy outcome of the study.

Author : Shamir
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900449376X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbi Moses ha-Kohen of Tordesillas and his Book 'Ezer ha-Emunah written by Shamir and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emanuel Schreiber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Sikkaron Moshe" Rabbi Moses Bloch, Born, 1805, Gailingen; Died March 14, 1841, Buchau written by Emanuel Schreiber and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Moshe Halbertal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400848474
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maimonides written by Moshe Halbertal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of Jewish tradition. Moshe Halbertal vividly describes Maimonides's childhood in Muslim Spain, his family's flight to North Africa to escape persecution, and their eventual resettling in Egypt. He draws on Maimonides's letters and the testimonies of his contemporaries, both Muslims and Jews, to offer new insights into his personality and the circumstances that shaped his thinking. Halbertal then turns to Maimonides's legal and philosophical work, analyzing his three great books--Commentary on the Mishnah, the Mishneh Torah, and the Guide of the Perplexed. He discusses Maimonides's battle against all attempts to personify God, his conviction that God's presence in the world is mediated through the natural order rather than through miracles, and his locating of philosophy and science at the summit of the religious life of Torah. Halbertal examines Maimonides's philosophical positions on fundamental questions such as the nature and limits of religious language, creation and nature, prophecy, providence, the problem of evil, and the meaning of the commandments. A stunning achievement, Maimonides offers an unparalleled look at the life and thought of this important Jewish philosopher, scholar, and theologian.

Author : Isadore Twersky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674745605
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbi Moses Naḥmanides (Ramban) written by Isadore Twersky and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich little volume, which substantively enhances our knowledge and appreciation of R. Moses Nahmanides, contains an introduction by Isadore Twersky and five original and learned articles by well-known scholars: David Berger, Brooklyn College ("Miracles and the Natural Order in Nahmanides"); Ezra Fleischer, The Hebrew University ("The 'Gerona School' of Hebrew Poetry"); Moshe Idel, The Hebrew University ("'We Have No Kabbalistic Tradition on This'"); Bezalel Safran, Harvard University ("Rabbi Azriel and Nahmanides: Two Views of the Fall of Man"); and Bernard Septimus, Harvard University ("'Open Rebuke and Concealed Love': Nahmanides and the Andalusian Tradition"). Ramban's attitude to aggadah, poetry, exegesis and rationalism, his coupling of genuine conservatism and powerful originality, his views on the nature of man, law of nature, miracles, history of kabbalah, dialectics of halakah, his relation to the Spanish intellectual-spiritual background, Proencal culture, and French Talmudism--these are some of the topics explored in these pages. In connection with these specific topics of Nahmanides research, some broader historical issues are also touched upon: continuities and differences between Islamic and Christian Spain; varieties of thirteenth-centurey kabbalah; preoccupations of medieval halakists; root problems of Scriptural exegesis; the re-orientation of Hebrew poetry in Christian Spain; the relation of philosophy and mysticism. Anyone interested in the luminous achievement and enduring influence of Ramban, probably the greatest figure in 13th century Jewish history, will turn to this volume.

Author : Shelomo Alfassa
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0976322617
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palm Tree of Deborah written by Shelomo Alfassa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maurice D. Harris
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610974077
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moses written by Maurice D. Harris and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Moses: A Stranger among Us, Rabbi Maurice Harris leads us to look beyond familiar and popular portrayals of Moses so that we can discover the Moses whose lesser-known attributes and experiences provide us with surprisingly fresh ethical and spiritual guidance. Harris offers many angles on his subject, interweaving traditional religious interpretations, academic Bible scholarship, psychological and sociological analysis, feminist readings, and more. Combining deep respect for the biblical text with a willingness to question received tradition, Harris reveals a complex Moses whose life story gives us important tools for better understanding issues like religious fundamentalism, intermarriage, identity confusion, civil disobedience, gay and lesbian equality, and the nature of sacred mythic storytelling. Written in a refreshing, plainspoken voice for people of all faiths or none, the result is a volume of creative, thought-provoking, and exciting readings of the Bible.

Author : Mosheh Likhṭenshṭain
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781602800120
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moses written by Mosheh Likhṭenshṭain and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300225121
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moses written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Jewish thought, turns her attention to Moses in this remarkably rich, evocative book. Drawing on a broad range of sources—literary as well as psychoanalytic, a wealth of classical Jewish texts alongside George Eliot, W. G. Sebald, and Werner Herzog—Zornberg offers a vivid and original portrait of the biblical Moses. Moses's vexing personality, his uncertain origins, and his turbulent relations with his own people are acutely explored by Zornberg, who sees this story, told and retold, as crucial not only to the biblical past but also to the future of Jewish history.

Author : Sol Scharfstein
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781602800205
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torah and Commentary written by Sol Scharfstein and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: