Mehr lesen
Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People explores Maimonides' philosophical psychology, his ethics, his views on prophecy, providence, and immortality, his understanding of the place of gentiles in the Messianic area, his attitude toward proselytes, his answer to the question, "Who is a Jew?", his conception of the nature of Torah, and his arguments concerning the nature of the Chosen People. With respect to each of these issues, Kellner shows that Maimonides adopted positions that reflected his emphasis on nurture over nature and his insistence that it is intellectual perfection and not ethnic affiliation which is crucial.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Menachem Kellner teaches medieval Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish History and Thought and is Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought and is Dean of Students at the University of Haifa. He is the author of
Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought; Torat he-Ikkarim ba-Philosophiah ha-Yehudit Bimei ha-Benayim; Maimonides on Human Perfection; and
Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People, also published by SUNY Press. He is translator of Isaac Abravanel's
Principles of Faith and Levi ben Gershom's
Commentary on Song of Songs; and editor of
Contemporary Jewish Ethics; Rosh Amanah; and
The Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild, also published by SUNY Press.
