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This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars who absorbed into their thought the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands.
List of contents
Volume ITranslator¿s Note
Foreword to the English EditionIntroduction
Chapter One:
Samson Raphael Hirsch: The Neo-Orthodox, Neo-Romantic Educator, and his Approach of Neo-Fundamentalist Identicality
Chapter Two:
Interpretations of Hirsch¿s Thought from the Right and the Left
Chapter Three:
¿Heavenly Reward¿¿Samuel David Luzzattös Doctrine of Divine Providence¿between Revelation and Philosophy
Chapter Four:
Development of Halakhah: Luzzattös Evolving Views
Chapter Five:
The Peshat is One, Because the Truth is One: Luzzatto between Interpretation and Thought
Chapter Six:
Luzzatto and Maimonides: ¿Accept Truth from Whoever Speaks It¿
Chapter Seven:
Luzzatto on Theosophical Kabbalah: Harmful Invention with Worthy Intentions
Chapter Eight:
Between Reason and Revelation: The Encounter between Rabbi Tsvi Hirsch Chajes and Nahman Krochmal
Volume IIChapter Nine:
Hirsch¿s Influence on Religious Jewish Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Chapter Ten:
Hirsch¿s Influence on Rabbi David Tsvi Hoffmann¿s Commentary on the Pentateuch
Chapter Eleven:
Hirsch¿s Influence on Twentieth-Century Halakhic Decisors
Chapter Twelve:
The Influence of German Neo-Orthodoxy on the Young Rav Kook
Chapter Thirteen:
Luzzattös Influence on Umberto Cassutös Method of Biblical Interpretation
Chapter Fourteen:
Tolerance, Pluralism, and Postmodernism¿A Dialectic of Opposites in Jewish Thought in the Modern Era
About the author
Dr. Ephraim Chamiel has filled various managerial positions at Israeli Bank Leumi. Upon his early retirement, he completed his Doctorate in Jewish Thought at Hebrew University, teaching there for a number of years. He is currently continuing his research in modern Jewish thought.
Summary
Explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars who absorbed into their thought the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands. They include halakhists such as Rabbi Ettlinger; Jewish philosophers from Isaac Bernays to Yeshayau Leibowitz; and biblical commentators such as Rabbi Umberto Cassuto.
