New Perspectives on Abraham Geiger
Author: Jakob Josef Petuchowski
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 78
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 78
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jacob J. Petuchowski
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ISBN-13: 9780870684685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jakob J. Petuchowski
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780783730004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Susannah Heschel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998-04-11
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0226329593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Was Jesus the founder of Christianity or a teacher of Judaism? When 19th-century German religious reformer Abraham Geiger argued the latter, he began a debate that continues to this day. Here Susannah Heschel traces the genesis of Geiger's contention and examines the reaction to it within Christian theology. 3 photos.
Author: Alan T. Levenson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0742546063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Highlighting well-known Jewish thinkers from a very wide spectrum of opinion, the author addresses a range of issues, including: What makes a thinker Jewish? What makes modern Jewish thought modern? How have secular Jews integrated Jewish traditional thought with agnosticism? What do Orthodox thinkers have to teach non-Orthodox Jews and vice versa? Each chapter includes a short, judiciously chosen selection from the given author, along with questions to guide the reader through the material. Short biographical essays at the end of each chapter offer the reader recommendations for further readings and provide the low-down on which books are worth the reader's while. Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers represents a decade of the author's experience teaching students ranging from undergraduate age to their seventies. This is an ideal textbook for undergraduate classes.
Author: Ken Koltun-Fromm
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006-07-13
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780253111852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →German rabbi, scholar, and theologian Abraham Geiger (1810--1874) is recognized as the principal leader of the Reform movement in German Judaism. In his new work, Ken Koltun-Fromm argues that for Geiger personal meaning in religion -- rather than rote ritual practice or acceptance of dogma -- was the key to religion's moral authority. In five chapters, the book explores issues central to Geiger's work that speak to contemporary Jewish practice -- historical memory, biblical interpretation, ritual and gender practices, rabbinic authority, and Jewish education. This is essential reading for scholars, rabbis, rabbinical students, and informed Jewish readers interested in Conservative and Reform Judaism. Published with the generous support of the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation.
Author: Aaron D. Hornkohl
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2021-04-06
Total Pages: 806
ISBN-13: 1800641664
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists. This volume is the published outcome of this initiative. It contains peer-reviewed papers in the fields of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew that advance the field by the philological investigation of primary sources and the application of cutting-edge linguistic theory. These include contributions by established scholars and by students and early career researchers.
Author: S. Leyla Gurkan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-12-05
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1134037066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, the author seeks to give a better understanding of this central doctrine of the Jewish religion. She shows that although the idea of chosenness has been central to Judaism and Jewish self-definition, it has not been carried to the present day in the same form. Instead it has gone through constant change, depending on who is employing it, against what sort of background, and for what purpose. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the doctrine of chosenness that appear in Ancient, Modern, and Post-Holocaust periods, the dominant themes of ‘Holiness’, ‘Mission’, and ‘Survival’ are identified in each respective period. The theological, philosophical, and sociological dimensions of the question of Jewish chosenness are thus examined in their historical context, as responses to the challenges of Christianity, Modernity, and the Holocaust in particular. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Jewish Studies, the Holocaust, religion and theology.
Author: Jonathan Skolnik
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2014-03-19
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0804790590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing. What did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case that the answer lies in the creation of a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction played a central role. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Jewish writers and artists, both in Nazi Germany and in exile, employed images from the Sephardic past to grapple with the nature of fascism, the predicament of exile, and the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust. The book goes on to show that this past not only helped Jews to make sense of the nonsense, but served also as a window into the hopes for integration and fears about assimilation that preoccupied German-Jewish writers throughout most of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, Skolnik positions the Jewish embrace of German culture not as an act of assimilation but rather a reinvention of Jewish identity and historical memory.
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Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780827610606
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of twenty-two essays and studies represents a cross section of Dr Petuchowski's work, paying tribute to the world of German Jewish scholarship that formed the background of his work.