Understanding Jewish Theology: Classical Issues and Modern Perspectives - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1586840908 ISBN 13 : 9781586840907

Editeur : Global Academic Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

This book examines the religious experience of Judaism and comprehends both the perceptions of ordinary folks and the teachings of the creative elite-prophets, rabbis, philosophers, mystics, scholars, lawyers, and sages. To find out about the ordinary Jew one turns to the prayers he recites, the festivals he celebrates, the various ritual and mythic testimonies to the Jews' shared religious imagination. But these do not constitute the whole of the Judaic tradition, only part of it. The other part comprises the way in which theological thinkers interpret religious experiences and make sense of them. How do they produce an account of the central issues of the Judaic religious life, make them accessible to reason and constitutive of a formidable intellectual tradition? The power of Judaism is to be laid open to the experience of the student not only through the analysis of the central issues in Judaic theology. They were able to see the theologians at work, to examine their modes of thought and procedures of argument, to see how they appeal to sacred Scriptures and mediate the claims of law, revelation, and tradition to their own time.

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À propos de l'auteur

Professor Marvin Fox received his B.A. in philosophy in 1942 from Northwestern University, the M.A. in the same field in 1946, and the Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1950 in that field as well. His education in Judaic texts was certified by rabbinical ordination as Rabbi by the Hebrew Theological College of Chicago in 1942. He served as a Jewish Chaplain in the US Army Air Force during World War II from 1942 to 1946. He taught at Ohio State University from 1948 through 1974, rising from Instructor to Professor of Philosophy. During those years he served also as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar Ilan University (1970–1971). In 1974 he came to Brandeis University as Appleman Professor of Jewish Thought, and from 1976 onward he has held the Lown Professorship. He has received numerous academic awards, lectured widely at universities and at national and international academic conferences and served as Member of the National Endowment for the Humanities National Board of Consultants for new programs at colleges and universities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Global Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1586840908
• ISBN 13: 9781586840907
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 337
• Éditeur: Neusner Jacob
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible