Controversy And Dialogue In The Jewish Tradition

Author : Hanina Ben-Menahem,Neil Hecht,Shai Wosner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000086508

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Controversy and Dialogue in the Jewish Tradition by Hanina Ben-Menahem,Neil Hecht,Shai Wosner Pdf

Controversy is the main instrument by which Judaism develops and shapes its philosophy, theology and law. The rabbinical literature speaks with many voices, debating virtually every subject, and failing to reach a consensus on many. However, this willingness to condone controversy is accompanied by much deliberation. Controversy, and its legal, philosophical and social ramifications, was and remains of unparalleled concern to the rabbis. Today, we are also witness to a burgeoning academic interest in controversy and pluralism in Jewish law. This book is an anthology of passages from the rabbinical literature that address the phenomenon of controversy in Jewish law, affording the English-speaking reader the opportunity for a first-hand encounter with this fascinating material. An extensive analytical introduction contextualizes the material from a philosophical perspective. For more information, please visit www.controversy-dialogue.org.

Author : Hanina Ben-Menahem,Neil S. Hecht,Shai Wosner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415340039

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Controversy and Dialogue in the Jewish Tradition by Hanina Ben-Menahem,Neil S. Hecht,Shai Wosner Pdf

This book is an anthology of passages from the rabbinical literature that address the phenomenon of controversy in Jewish law, affording the English-speaking reader the opportunity for a first-hand encounter with this fascinating material.

Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124090593

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The Art of Dialogue in Jewish Philosophy by Aaron W. Hughes Pdf

Aaron W. Hughes presents the first major study of dialogue as a Jewish philosophical practice. Examining connections between Jewish philosophy, the literary form in which it is expressed, and the culture in which it is produced, Hughes shows how Jews understood and struggled with their social, religious, and intellectual environments. In this innovative and insightful book, Hughes addresses various themes associated with the literary form of dialogue as well as its philosophical reception: Why did various thinkers choose dialogue? What did it allow them to accomplish? How do the literary features of dialogue construct philosophical argument? As a history of philosophical form, context, and practice, this book will interest scholars and students working at the intersections of religious studies, philosophy, and literature.

Author : Magdalena Dziaczkowska,Adele Valeria Messina
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004425958

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Jews in Dialogue by Magdalena Dziaczkowska,Adele Valeria Messina Pdf

Jews in Dialogue discusses Jewish post-Holocaust involvement in interreligious and intercultural dialogue in Israel, Europe, and the United States. The essays within offer a multiplicity of approaches and perspectives (historical, sociological, theological, etc.) on how Jews have collaborated and cooperated with non-Jews to respond to the challenges of multicultural contemporaneity. The volume’s first part is about the concept of dialogue itself and its potential for effecting change; the second part documents examples of successful interreligious cooperation. The volume includes an appendix designed to provide context for the material presented in the first part, especially with regard to relations between the State of Israel and the Catholic Church.

Author : Rabbi Stanley M. Davids,Rabbi Lawrence A. Englander, DHL
Publisher : CCAR Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780881233100

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The Fragile Dialogue by Rabbi Stanley M. Davids,Rabbi Lawrence A. Englander, DHL Pdf

Israel has quickly become one of the most polarizing forces in the North American Jewish community. In a world already much too divided, how can we approach the subject of Zionism without widening the rifts? This book wrestles with and attempts to frame the very fragile dialogue surrounding Zionism and Israel in the 21st century Progressive Jewish community. Written from a multiplicity of views, the collection explores the many lenses through which this varied community approaches Zionism, not only set apart by political differences but also by geographical diversity, religious divisiveness, socio-economic policies, gender issues, the use and abuse of power, and more. The Fragile Dialogue is a conversation starter, meant to provide the challenging yet vital basis for narrowing the rifts in our dialogue around Zionism today.

Author : David Novak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195360981

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Jewish-Christian Dialogue by David Novak Pdf

Many studies written about the Jewish-Christian relationship are primarily historical overviews that focus on the Jewish background of Christianity, the separation of Christianity from Judaism, or the medieval disputations between the two faiths. This book is one of the first studies to examine the relationship from a philosophical and theological viewpoint. Carefully drawing on Jewish classical sources, Novak argues that there is actual justification for the new relationship between Judaism and Christianity from within Jewish religious tradition. He demonstrates that this new relationship is possible between religiously committed Jews and Christians without the two major impediments to dialogue: triumphalism and relativism. One of the very few books on this topic written by a Jewish theologian who speaks specifically to modern Christian concerns, it will provide the groundwork for a more serious development of Jewish-Christian dialogue in our day.

Author : Sandra B. Lubarsky
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878201440

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Tolerance and Transformation by Sandra B. Lubarsky Pdf

In the last twenty-five years, the effort to understand the ways of others has reinvigorated religious discussion on many levels. We have entered what has been described as the "Age of Dialogue." But what should be the nature of such dialogue? And what should be its goal? What exactly is the proper relationship between different communities of faith? In this book, Sandra B. Lubarsky offers some new answers to these timely questions. She begins with an affirmation of "veridical pluralism," the position that more than one tradition "speaks truth" - a "blessed fact" that enables us to enlarge our vision of truth through openness to the perceptions of others. Using the concept of "transformative dialogue" (a term borrowed from the theologian John B. Cobb, Jr.), she presents a method for the encounter of traditions in an age of religious pluralism - one which entails neither a loss of particularity nor a descent into relativism. In a Jewish contexts, Lubarsky argues that the Noachide Covenant, the premodern Jewish approach to non-Jews, is an inadequate framework for today's dialogue since it accords no independent value to any non-Jewish tradition. She then gives serious attention to the interreligious views of four seminal modern Jewish thinkers: Leo Baeck, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Mordecai Kaplan. Acknowledging our tremendous intellectual debt to them, she nevertheless calls for a move beyond tolerance and beyond mutual appreciation toward dialogue that may be transformative of our own traditions.

Author : Catholic Apologetics International Publishing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0984185933

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Catholic/Jewish Dialogue by Catholic Apologetics International Publishing Pdf

Author : Hanina Ben-Menahem,Arye Edrei,Neil S. Hecht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136479977

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Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture by Hanina Ben-Menahem,Arye Edrei,Neil S. Hecht Pdf

This book opens windows onto various aspects of Jewish legal culture. Rather than taking a structural approach, and attempting to circumscribe and define ‘every’ element of Jewish law, Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture takes a dynamic and holistic approach, describing diverse manifestations of Jewish legal culture, and its general mind-set, without seeking to fit them into a single structure. Jewish legal culture spans two millennia, and evolved in geographic centers that were often very distant from one another both geographically and socio-culturally. It encompasses the Talmud and talmudic literature, the law codes, the rulings of rabbinical courts, the responsa literature, decisions taken by communal leaders, study of the law in talmudic academies, the local study hall, and the home. But Jewish legal culture reaches well beyond legal and quasi-legal institutions; it addresses, and is reflected in, every aspect of daily life, from meals and attire to interpersonal and communal relations. Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture gives the reader a taste of the tremendous weight of Jewish legal culture within Jewish life. Among the facets of Jewish legal culture explored are two of its most salient distinguishing features, namely, toleration and even encouragement of controversy, and a preference for formalistic formulations. These features are widely misunderstood, and Jewish legal culture is often parodied as hair-splitting argument for the sake of argument. In explaining the epistemic imperatives that motivate Jewish legal culture, however, this book paints a very different picture. Situational constraints and empirical considerations are shown to provide vital input into legal determinations at every level, and the legal process is revealed to be attentive to context and sensitive to cultural concerns.

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814321992

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Exploring Jewish Ethics by Eugene B. Borowitz Pdf

The essay "Buddhist and Jewish Ethics: A Response to Masao Abe" (pp. 464-473) relates to a paper by Abe due to be published in 1990 which explains his Buddhist understanding of ultimate reality. Though his primary discussion is with Christianity, he also seeks to understand how Jewish thinkers have come to terms with the Holocaust, hoping in this way to initiate Buddhist-Jewish dialogue. Borowitz explains Jewish philosophical and theological responses to the Holocaust.

Author : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal,Tzvi Novick,Christine Hayes
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647552545

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The Faces of Torah by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal,Tzvi Novick,Christine Hayes Pdf

This volume is a festschrift in honor of Steven Fraade, the Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism at Yale University. The contributions to the volume, written by colleagues and former students of Professor Fraade, reflect many of his scholarly interests. The scholarly credentials of the contributors are exceedingly high. The volume is divided into three sections, one on Second Temple literature and its afterlife, a second on rabbinic literature and rabbinic history, and a third on prayer and the ancient synagogue. Contributors are Alan Applebaum, Joshua Burns , Elizabeth Shanks Alexander , Chaya Halberstam , John J. Collins, Marc Bregman, Aharon Shemesh, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Vered Noam, Robert Brody, Albert Baumgarten, Marc Hirshman, Moshe Bar-Asher, Aaron Amit, Yose Yahalom, Lee Levine, Jan Joosten, Daniel Boyarin, Charlotte Hempel, David Stern, Beth Berkowitz, Azzan Yadin, Joshua Levinson, Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Tzvi Novick, Devora Diamant, Richard Kalmin, Carol Bakhos, Judith Hauptman, Jeff Rubenstein, Martha Himmelfarb, Stuart Miller, Esther Chazon, James Kugel, Chaim Milikowsky, Maren Niehoff, Peter Schaefer, and Adiel Schremer.

Author : Marcelo Dascal,Han-liang Chang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291813

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Traditions of Controversy by Marcelo Dascal,Han-liang Chang Pdf

Controversies may be particularly prominent in one or another culture. Yet, there is hardly any culture where they do not exist. This book assumes that the practice of controversy, along with its theorization, constitutes – in each of the cultures and disciplines where it develops – a tradition. Whether there are enough shared elements in these traditions to consider them as, fundamentally, universal or not is something that can only be determined on the basis of a rich sample of controversies and theorizations thereof belonging to different traditions. This is what this volume provides to the reader. By presenting side by side controversies from the East and from the West, from the ancient past up to the present, from different domains of scholarship and action, the reader is in a position not only to admire the widespread nature, role, and richness of the phenomenon, but also to begin to evaluate its variety as well as universality. While the editors have purposefully avoided comparative studies of traditions of controversy, in order to focus on each tradition so to speak from its practitioners’ point of view, some of the chapters take a bird’s eye view and exemplify how such studies can be systematically conducted. In a world that is globalizing itself at a fast pace, the awareness of the multiplicity of traditions of controversy is fundamental for ensuring both that the integration of the various perspectives is harmonious and that each one of them is granted its place in a plural universe.

Author : G. David Schwartz
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819194131

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A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue by G. David Schwartz Pdf

This book is a collection of essays which investigate the current status of dialogue between Jews and Christians. The author argues that Jews have been reluctant to engage in any but the most cursitory conversations with Christians, but that there are positive reasonings for going further. A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogu argues that a certain attitude is necessary for coherant relations. Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; On the Reluctance of Jews to Discuss Religious Truths; Why Jews Ought to Engage in Dialogue; Expositions From the Lord's Table: Typology and Midrash; Jewish-Christian Relations and the Thought of Samuel Sandmel; Confrontation or Conversation?: Models for Jewish-Christian Dialogue; Jews and Catholics Discussing Bible and Jesus; Two Popular Jewish Interpretations of Jesus; is There a Jewish Reclamation of Jesus?; Rosenzweigian Mediations on Paganism, Anti-Judaism, the Holocaust and Rejudaization of the Church, Noahide Laws, Christian Covenants and Jewish Expectations; A Note on the Friends of Israel and the Jews; Scratch a Goy.

Author : Rachel S. Mikva
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807051887

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Dangerous Religious Ideas by Rachel S. Mikva Pdf

Reveals how faith traditions have always passed down tools for self-examination and debate, because all religious ideas—not just extremist ones—can cause harm, even as they also embody important moral teachings. Scripture’s abiding relevance can inspire great goodness, such as welcoming the stranger and extending compassion for the poor. But its authority has also been wielded to defend slavery, marginalize LGBTQ individuals, ignore science, and justify violence. Grounded in close readings of scripture and tradition in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, religious scholar Rachel Mikva shows us that the Abrahamic religions have always been aware of their tremendous power both to harm and to heal. And so they have transmitted their sacred stories along with built-in tools—interpretive traditions—to do the necessary work of taking on dangerous religious ideas and fostering self-critical faith. By exploring the themes of Scripture, Election, Reward and Punishment, Mikva examines how the interpretive methodologies of these religions have identified and grappled with their perilous power and positive potential. Many readers presume that their understanding of scripture’s meaning is absolute, forgetting how these sacred texts and the history of interpretation have valued multiple perspectives and recognized ongoing rhythms of change. It’s not a modern phenomenon to debate the nature of truth, hold space open for doubt, value humility, and question our capacity to know things—especially about God and God’s will—with certainty. In fact, none of the traditions could remain vital or thrive together without a sustained practice of self-critique. Dangerous Religious Ideas reframes the way we talk about faith to create a space where public discussion of religion is more constructive, nuanced, and socially engaged.

Author : Avdiel Ben Levi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983931519

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The Star of David Controversy by Avdiel Ben Levi Pdf

The Star of David Controversy is a book that was written to empower people with a greater understanding of one of the most ancient symbols of Hebrew culture and tradition. This book was designed to open a more scholastic dialogue on the true origins of the Star of David. The reader will be provided with enough information to pursue a more scholastic approach to assessing the true origins of this ancient symbol.