Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought
Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought Every work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. How well did they really understand…
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Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought
Every work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. How well did they really understand Maimonides? Whitehead's famous dictum that the entire European philosophical tradition 'consists of a series of footnotes to Plato' could equally characterize Maimonides' place in the Jewish tradition.The critical studies in this volume explore how Orthodox rabbis of different orientations - Shlomo Aviner, Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin (Netziv), Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Joseph Kafih, Abraham Isaac Kook, Aaron Kotler, Joseph Soloveitchik, and Elhanan Wasserman - have read and provided footnotes toMaimonides in the long twentieth century.
Each of the seven core chapters examines a particular approach. And where do their arguments fit in the mainstream debates about him and his works? Some rabbis have tried to liberate themselves from
Maimonides
Lost in Thought
Evil in Modern Thought
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