ISBN:
9789655242812
Language:
English
Pages:
198 Seiten
Edition:
First edition
Year of publication:
2018
DDC:
296.8/32092
Keywords:
Soloveitchik, Joseph Dov Teachings
Abstract:
"This book sets forward interesting and less-explored aspects of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik's teachings. These essays delve into the Rav's approach toward understanding biblical figures, his views on emotions and intellect, his appreciation of R. Yehudah ha-Levi, his understanding of medieval history, and the implications for modernity"--
Abstract:
In many respects God was closer to Abraham than He was to Moses: themes in emergence of ethical man / Shalom Carmy -- Biblical hermeneutics in the thought of Rav Soloveitchik: a preliminary appraisal of the influence of R. Yehudah Halevi / Shira Weiss -- The Identity of love and cognition in the thought of R. Joseph Soloveitchik / Alex Sztuden -- The history of the tosafists and their literary corpus according to Rav Soloveitchik's interpretations of the qinot for Tishah Be'Av / Ephraim Kanarfogel -- Science or hermeneutics? Rav Soloveitchik's scientific method revisited / Daniel Rynhold -- Contemporary scholarship on Rabbi Soloveitchik's thought: where we are, where we can go / David Shatz
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