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Author:   Samuel Lebens (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Haifa)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.841kg
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9780198994305

ISBN 10:   0198994303
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   04 June 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Choosing a Theory of Chosenness Part I. The Biblical Data 2: The Narrative Arc of the Bible 3: Disarming Difficult Texts 4: Chosenness in the Book of Genesis 5: God's Bride 6: A Kingdom of Priests 7: More Biblical Data and Textual Tensions 8: Summarizing the Election as It Appears in the Hebrew Bible Part II. The Rabbinic Data 9: Disarming the Rabbis 10: Eternity and History 11: Stiff-Necked Arsonists 12: Mediation and the Image of Jacob 13: Chosenness in Liturgy Part III. A Critical History of Chosenness in Jewish Thought 14: Medieval Philosophy and Saadya Gaon 15: Maimonides 16: Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Levi 17: Is God a Person? 18: Supra-Rationalism: Ibn Pakuda, Crescas, and Albo 19: Supra-Rationalism Assessed 20: The Mystical Tradition 21: Rabbi Lipschutz and the Two-Track Model 22: Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and the Two-Track Model 23: Scrutinizing the Two-Track Model 24: Franz Rosenzweig 25: Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook 26: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson 27: Rabbi Sacks and The Dignity of Difference Part IV. A Theory of Chosenness 28: Reclaiming the Genesis Model 29: Reframing the Marriage Model 30: A Holy Priesthood 31: Revisiting the Rabbis 32: 'Radical Then, Radical Now'

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Samuel Lebens is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Haifa. His work spans a wide range of interests from the philosophy of Bertrand Russell to the teachings of the Hassidic Masters. He has published articles on topics ranging from religious epistemology to the ontology of literature. He was the founding chairperson of the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism and is an Orthodox Rabbi.

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