Messianism In Medieval Jewish Thought

Author : Dov Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
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Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1618115707

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Messianism in Medieval Jewish Thought by Dov Schwartz Pdf

How did medieval Jewish scholars, from Saadia Gaon to Yitzhak Abravanel, imagine a world that has experienced salvation? What is the nature of reality in the days of the Messiah? This work explores reactions to the seductive promises of apocalyptic teachings, tracing their fluctuations between intellect and imagination. The volume extensively surveys the tension between naturalistic and apocalyptic approaches to the history of the messianic idea so fundamental to the history of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages and reveals the scope and challenges of medieval thought.

Author : Joseph Sarachek
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606082843

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The Doctrine of the Messiah in Medieval Jewish Literature by Joseph Sarachek Pdf

This Is A Solid Scholarly Book About The Messianic Views Of The Greatest Scholars And Thinkers Of The Middle Ages, Saadia, Gaon, Rash, Judah Halevi, To Name A Few.

Author : M. Goldish,R.H. Popkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401722780

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Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture by M. Goldish,R.H. Popkin Pdf

The earliest scientific studies of Jewish messianism were conducted by the scholars of the Wissenschaft des Judentums school, particularly Heinrich Graetz, the first great Jewish historian of the Jews since Josephus. These researches were invaluable because they utilized primary sources in print and manuscript which had been previously unknown or used only in polemics. The Wissenschaft studies themselves, however, prove to be polemics as well on closer inspection. Among the goals of this group was to demonstrate that Judaism is a rational and logical faith whose legitimacy and historical progress deserve recognition by the nations of Europe. Mystical and messianic beliefs which might undermine this image were presented as aberrations or the result of corrosive foreign influences on the Jews. Gershom Scholem took upon himself the task of returning mysticism and messianism to their rightful central place in the panorama of Jewish thought. Jewish messianism was, for Scholem, a central theme in the philosophy and life of the Jews throughout their history, shaped anew by each generation to fit its specific hopes and needs. Scholem emphasized that this phenomenon was essentially independent of messianic or millenarian trends among other peoples. For example, in discussing messianism in the early modern era Scholem describes a trunk of influence on the Jewish psyche set off by the expulsion from Spain in 1492.

Author : Dov Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Geschichte
ISBN : 1618115693

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Messianism in Medieval Jewish Thought by Dov Schwartz Pdf

How did medieval Jewish scholars, from Saadia Gaon to Yitzhak Abravanel, imagine a world that has experienced salvation? What is the nature of reality in the days of the Messiah? This work explores reactions to the seductive promises of apocalyptic teachings, tracing their fluctuations between intellect and imagination. The volume extensively surveys the tension between naturalistic and apocalyptic approaches to the history of the messianic idea so fundamental to the history of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages and reveals the scope and challenges of medieval thought.

Author : M. Goldish,R.H. Popkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780792368502

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Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture by M. Goldish,R.H. Popkin Pdf

The earliest scientific studies of Jewish messianism were conducted by the scholars of the Wissenschaft des Judentums school, particularly Heinrich Graetz, the first great Jewish historian of the Jews since Josephus. These researches were invaluable because they utilized primary sources in print and manuscript which had been previously unknown or used only in polemics. The Wissenschaft studies themselves, however, prove to be polemics as well on closer inspection. Among the goals of this group was to demonstrate that Judaism is a rational and logical faith whose legitimacy and historical progress deserve recognition by the nations of Europe. Mystical and messianic beliefs which might undermine this image were presented as aberrations or the result of corrosive foreign influences on the Jews. Gershom Scholem took upon himself the task of returning mysticism and messianism to their rightful central place in the panorama of Jewish thought. Jewish messianism was, for Scholem, a central theme in the philosophy and life of the Jews throughout their history, shaped anew by each generation to fit its specific hopes and needs. Scholem emphasized that this phenomenon was essentially independent of messianic or millenarian trends among other peoples. For example, in discussing messianism in the early modern era Scholem describes a trunk of influence on the Jewish psyche set off by the expulsion from Spain in 1492.

Author : Michael L. Morgan,Steven Weitzman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253014771

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Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism by Michael L. Morgan,Steven Weitzman Pdf

Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.

Author : Dov Schwartz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047416845

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Central Problems of Medieval Jewish Philosophy by Dov Schwartz Pdf

This volume deals with central issues of medieval Jewish philosophy. Among the subjects treated are divine immanence, the intellect, miracles, and esoteric writing and its limits. This work provides a new perspective on the history of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages.

Author : Menachem Kellner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909821422

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Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought by Menachem Kellner Pdf

‘An important contribution to the history of dogma in Judaism and to the history of fifteenth-century Jewish thought in particular.’ Chava Tirosh-Rothschild, Critical Review ‘A work of serious scholarship. It will no doubt become the standard work on the subject for many years to come.’ Jewish Book News & Reviews ‘A detailed analysis of Maimonides’s position and its aftermath ... a scholarly analysis ... Kellner steers us deftly through the complex argument. His is the most thorough treatment so far of this still relevant chapter in the history of Jewish thought.’ Jonathan Sacks, L’Eylah

Author : Amos Funkenstein
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015042030836

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Maimonides by Amos Funkenstein Pdf

Presents Maimonides' messianic beliefs as stemming from his views of the structure of nature and the course of history. The author argues that Maimonides saw the messianic era as an historical period on one hand, and as a Utopian era of eternal peace and the recognition of God on the other.

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300082886

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Messianic Mystics by Moshe Idel Pdf

One of the worl'ds leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience.

Author : Howard Kreisel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0792371240

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Prophecy by Howard Kreisel Pdf

More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative. How can a human being attain the Word of God? In what manner does God, when conceived as eternal and transcendent, address corporeal, transitory creatures? What happens to God's divine Truth when it is beheld by minds limited in their power to apprehend, and influenced by the intellectual currents of their time and place? How were these issues viewed by the great Jewish philosophers of the past, who took the divine communication and all it entails seriously, while at the same time desired to understand it as much as humanly possible in the course of dealing with a myriad of other issues that occupied their attention? This book offers an in-depth study of prophecy in the thought of seven of the leading medieval Jewish philosophers: R. Saadiah Gaon, R. Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Gersonides, R. Hasdai Crescas, R. Joseph Albo and Baruch Spinoza. It attempts to capture the `original voice' of these thinkers by looking at the intellectual milieus in which they developed their philosophies, and by carefully analyzing their views in their textual contexts. It also deals with the relation between the earlier approaches and the later ones. Overall, this book presents a significant model for narrating the history of an idea.

Author : Martin Kavka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139452014

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Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy by Martin Kavka Pdf

Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology - the doctrine of nonbeing - from the Jewish philosophical and theological tradition. For Emmanuel Levinas, as well as for Franz Rosenzweig, Hermann Cohen and Moses Maimonides, the Greek concept of nonbeing (understood as both lack and possibility) clarifies the meaning of Jewish life. These thinkers of 'Jerusalem' use 'Athens' for Jewish ends, justifying Jewish anticipation of a future messianic era as well as portraying the subjects intellectual and ethical acts as central in accomplishing redemption. This book envisions Jewish thought as an expression of the intimate relationship between Athens and Jerusalem. It also offers new readings of important figures in contemporary Continental philosophy, critiquing previous arguments about the role of lived religion in the thought of Jacques Derrida, the role of Plato in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and the centrality of ethics in the thought of Franz Rosenzweig.

Author : Dov Schwartz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047406884

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Studies on Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought by Dov Schwartz Pdf

Astral magic is shown to be a major influence in Jewish medieval thought. The book traces its winding course in the work of such figures as Judah Halevi, Nahmanides and others, and provides a new perspective on medieval Jewish rationalism.

Author : Joseph Sarachek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Messiah
ISBN : OCLC:1066821330

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The Doctrine of the Messiah in Medieval Jewish Literature. (2. Ed.) by Joseph Sarachek Pdf

Author : David Berger
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786949899

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The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference by David Berger Pdf

This book is a history, an indictment, a lament, and an appeal, focusing on the messianic trend in Lubavitch hasidism. It records the shattering of one of Judaism's core beliefs and the remarkable equanimity with which the standard-bearers of Orthodoxy have allowed it to happen. This is a development of striking importance for the history of religions, and it is an earthquake in the history of Judaism. David Berger describes the unfolding of this historic phenomenon and proposes a strategy to contain it.