Jewish Faith in a Changing World: A Modern Introduction to the World and Ideas of Classical Jewish Philosophy (Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History) - Softcover

Shuchat, Raphael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1618112163 ISBN 13: 9781618112163

Publisher: Academic Studies Press, 2012

Synopsis

Ever since the first encounter between Judaism and the western world in the second century BCE, Jewish thinkers like Maimonides, Gersonides, R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, and Rabbi A. I. Kook have grappled with issues of Jewish faith and modernity. The works they published, which comprise Jewish classical philosophy, were products of the highest intellectual caliber, and no question of faith, no matter how embarrassing or heretical, was overlooked. In this book Raphael Shuchat presents the reader with some of the main and timeless issues of Jewish philosophy over the ages and updates them to twenty-first century thinking, making each issue relevant for the modern reader. This book offers a fresh intellectual outlook on the Jewish faith, and contains a timely message for all religionists and thinkers in the twenty-first entury. It will be of great use to both students and laymen.

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About the Author

Rafael Shuchat (Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University, Rabbinic ordination Jerusalem Rabbinate) is a lecturer in Jewish philosophy and mysticism at Bar-Ilan University and Hebrew University. His publications include The Gaon of Vilna and His Academy and A World Hidden in the Dimension of Time: The Theory of Redemption in the Writings of the Vilna Gaon. He is also the founder and director of Project Chaverim, the Jewish Identity Program for new immigrant students, at Ner L’Elisheva in Israel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1618112163
• ISBN 13: 9781618112163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264