Jewish philosophical polemics against Christianity in the Middle Ages - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0870684981 ISBN 13 : 9780870684982

Synopsis

286 pages. Etiquette de code sur la couverture (jaquette). Quelques tampons et annotations de bibliothèque. Jaquette légèrement dachirée. Bon état Couv. convenable Intérieur frais In-8 Carré Relié Philosophical arguments. Historical arguments. Sources. The use of reason in religious debates. Trinity. Incarnation...

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Thorough and meticulously researched, this study is based on a comprehensive reading of philosophical arguments drawn from all the major Jewish sources, published and unpublished, from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the dawn of the Haskalah in the late eighteenth century. The core of the book is a detailed discussion of the four doctrines of Christianity whose rationality Jews thought they could definitively refute: trinity, incarnation, transubstantiation, and virgin birth. In each case, Daniel Lasker presents a succinct history of the Christian doctrine and then proceeds to a careful examination of the Jewish efforts to demonstrate its impossibility. The main text is clearly written in a non-technical manner, with the Christian doctrines and the Jewish responses both carefully explained; the notes include long quotations, in Hebrew and Arabic as well as in English, from sources that are not readily available in English. At the time of its original publication in 1977 this book was regarded as a major contribution to a relatively neglected area of medieval Jewish intellectual history; the new, wide-ranging introduction prepared for this paperback edition, which surveys and summarizes subsequent scholarship, re-establishes its position as a major work.

Biographie de l'auteur

Daniel J. Lasker is Norbert Blechner Professor of Jewish Values at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, and is chair of the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought. His books include Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages (1977), The Refutation of the Christian Principles by Hasdai Crescas (1992), and, with Sarah Stroumsa, The Polemic of Nestor the Priest (1996).

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870684981
• ISBN 13: 9780870684982
• Reliure: Relié
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