Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought

Informationen zum Autor James A. Diamond is Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon (2012), winner of a Canadian Jewish Literary Award in 2015, and Converts, Heretics and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider (2007). Menachem Kellner is chair of the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Shalem College, Jerusalem and Wolfson Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought, University of Haifa. Klappentext The first critical study of how Maimonides has been read by leading Orthodox rabbis in our time shows that some have tried to liberate themselves from his influence, others have built on his ideas generating vibrant controversy, and yet others have sought to recreate Maimonides in their own image. Zusammenfassung The first critical study of how Maimonides has been read by leading Orthodox rabbis in our time shows that some have tried to liberate themselves from his influence! others have built on his ideas generating vibrant controversy! and yet others have sought to recreate Maimonides in their own image.

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• Authors: James A Diamond, James A. Diamond, James A. (Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair o Diamond, James A. Kellner Diamond, A. James, Seth Kadish, Menachem Kellner, Menachem James Kellner
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781906764951
• ISBN: 978-1-906764-95-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous