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Since the classical period, Jewish scholars have drawn on developments in philosophy to enrich our understanding of Judaism. This methodology reached its pinnacle in the medieval period with figures like Maimonides and continued into the modern period with the likes of Rosenzweig. The explosion of Anglo-American/analytic philosophy in the twentieth century means that there is now a host of material, largely unexplored by Jewish philosophy, with which to explore, analyze, and develop the Jewish tradition. Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age features contributions from leading scholars in the field which investigate Jewish texts, traditions, and/or thinkers, in order to showcase what Jewish philosophy can be in an analytic age. United by the new and engaging style of philosophy, the collection explores rabbinic and Talmudic philosophy; Maimonidean philosophy; philosophical theology; and ethics and value theory.

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Author:   Samuel Lebens (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, University of Haifa) ,  Dani Rabinowitz (Independent scholar) ,  Aaron Segal (Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.718kg
ISBN:  

9780198811374

ISBN 10:   0198811373
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   06 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1: Samuel Lebens Dani Rabinowitz, and Aaron Segal: Introduction PART I: TALMUDIC AND RABBINIC PHILOSOPHY 2: Eli Hirsch: Talmudic Destiny 3: Aaron Segal: Metaphysics out of the Sources of the Halakha or a Halakhic Metaphysic? 4: Jeffrey S. Helmreich: A Jurisprudential Puzzle as Old as the Talmud 5: Samuel Lebens: A Commentary on a Midrash: Metaphors about Metaphor 6: Dani Rabinowitz: Catharsis and the Epistemology of Repentance in the Talmud and Jewish Law PART II: MAIMONIDEAN PHILOSOPHY 7: Mark Steiner: Hume and Maimonides on Imaginability and Possibility 8: Daniel Frank: Dispassion, God, and Nature: Maimonides and Spinoza 9: Josef Stern: Maimonides and his Predecessors on Dying for God as ""Sanctification of the Name of God"" PART III: PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY 10: Howard Wettstein: The Fabric of Faith 11: David Shatz: Should Theists Eschew Theodicies? 12: Tyron Goldschmidt: A Proof of Exodus: Yehuda HaLevy and Jonathan Edwards Walk into a Bar 13: Joshua Golding: Atzmut and Sefirot: A New Approach PART IV: ETHICS AND VALUE THEORY 14: Shira Weiss: The Morality of Biblical Deception: Misleading Truths, Geneivat Daat, and Jacobs Deception of Isaac 15: Yonatan Y. Brafman: Neither Authoritarian nor Superfluous: A Normative Account of Rabbinic Authority 16: Melis Erdur: A Classical Jewish Approach to The ""Normative Question"" 17: Saul Smilansky: The Good, the Bad, and the Nonidentity Problem PART V: SYMPOSIUM 18: Tzvi Novick, and Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz, and Aaron Segal: Jewish Studies and Analytic Philosophy of Judaism Index"

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Samuel Lebens is Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa. He works in early analytic philosophy, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions (Routledge, 2017). Along with his two co-editors, Dani Rabinowitz and Aaron Segal, he co-founded the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism. Dani Rabinowitz earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He then held a Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College, Oxford. He is currently a solicitor at Clifford Chance LLP. Together with Matthew Benton and John Hawthorne, he co-edited Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology (OUP, 2018). Aaron Segal is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on metaphysics, the afterlife, faith, and divine attributes. He is the co-editor of Jewish Philosophy Past and Present (with Daniel Frank; Routledge, 2016).

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