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Maimonides the Universalist

Maimonides the Universalist
Author: Menachem Kellner
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2020-11-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1789628032

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Maimonides’ Mishneh torah presents not only a system of Jewish law, but also a system of values. This study focuses on the moral and philosophical meditations that close each volume of his code. The authors analyse these concluding passages to uncover the universalist outlook underlying Maimonides’ halakhic thought.


Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah

Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah
Author: David Gillis
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2015-01-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789627796

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David Gillis’s highly original study of Maimonides’ Mishneh torah demonstrates that its form reflects a belief that observance of the divine commandments of the Torah brings the individual and society into line with the cosmic order. He shows that the Mishneh torah is intended to be an object of contemplation as well as a prescription for action, with the study of it in itself bringing the reader closer to knowledge of God.


Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism

Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism
Author: Menachem Kellner
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2006-09-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 190982108X

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Maimonides’ vision of Judaism was deeply elitist, but at the same time profoundly universalistic. He was highly critical of the regnant Jewish culture of his day, which he perceived as so heavily influenced by ancient Jewish mysticism as to be debased. While focusing on that critique, Menachem Kellner skilfully and accessibly demonstrates how Maimonides used philosophy to purify a corrupted and paganized religion, and to present distinctions fundamental to Judaism as institutional, sociological, and historical, rather than ontological. In Maimonides’ hands, metaphysical distinctions are translated into moral challenges.


Maimonides the Universalist

Maimonides the Universalist
Author: Menachem Kellner
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2020-11-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1800347456

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Maimonides’ Mishneh torah presents not only a system of Jewish law, but also a system of values. This study focuses on the moral and philosophical meditations that close each volume of his code. The authors analyse these concluding passages to uncover the universalist outlook underlying Maimonides’ halakhic thought.


We Are Not Alone

We Are Not Alone
Author: Menachem Kellner
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1644696150

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Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed addressed Jews of his day who felt challenged by apparent contradictions between Torah and science. We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other uses Maimonides’ writings to address Jews of today who are perplexed by apparent contradictions between the morality of the Torah and their conviction that all human beings are created in the image of God and are the object of divine concern, that other religions have value, that genocide is never justified, and that slavery is evil. Individuals who choose to emphasize the moral and universalist elements of Jewish tradition can often find support in positions explicitly held by Maimonides or implied by his teachings. We Are Not Alone offers an ethical and universalist vision of traditionalist Judaism.


Menachem Kellner: Jewish Universalism

Menachem Kellner: Jewish Universalism
Author: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004298282

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Menachem Kellner is an American-born scholar of Jewish philosophy, an educator, and a public intellectual who lives in Israel. For over three decades he taught at the University of Haifa, where he held the Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Chair of Jewish Religious Thought as well as several high-level administrative positions. Currently he teaches Jewish philosophy at Shalem College, Israel’s first liberal arts college, which seeks to integrate Western and Jewish texts. Trained in ethics and political philosophy, Kellner specializes in medieval Jewish philosophy, arguing that Maimonides’ rationalist universalism should serve as the ideal for contemporary Jewish life. Creatively fusing Zionism, modern Orthodoxy, and democracy, his vision of Judaism is open to and engaged with the modern world.


Rethinking Jewish Philosophy

Rethinking Jewish Philosophy
Author: Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199356815

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Rather than assume that the terms "philosophy" and "Judaism" simply belong together, Aaron W. Hughes explores the juxtaposition and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation. He examines the historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy.


Moses Maimonides

Moses Maimonides
Author: Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 019517321X

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Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial new biography, the work of many years, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson expounds all of his voluminous writings in exhaustive detail, with separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. This long-awaited volume is destined to become the standard work on this towering figure of Western intellectual history.


Science in the Bet Midrash

Science in the Bet Midrash
Author: Menachem Marc Kellner
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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This book explores the religious thought of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), the single most influential Jew of the last thousand years. While covering many aspects of his religious philosophy, the central focus of these essays is the way Maimonides elucidated and expressed the universalistic thrust of the Jewish tradition.


Interpreting Maimonides

Interpreting Maimonides
Author: Marvin Fox
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 1990
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0226259420

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In this comprehensive study, Marvin Fox offers an approach to Moses Maimonides that illuminates the intersections of his philosophical, religious, and Jewish visions—ideas that have embattled readers of Maimonides since the twelfth century.