Collected essays / Volume 3 / Haym Soloveitchik

Continuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pietist movement of Ḥasidei Ashkena...
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Continuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pietist movement of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz and its main literary work, Sefer Ḥasidim, and on the writings and personality of the Provençal commentator Ravad of Posquières. In both areas Soloveitchik challenges mainstream views to provide a new understanding of medieval Jewish thought. Some of the essays are revised and updated versions of work previously published and some are entirely new, but in all of them Soloveitchik challenges reigning views to provide a new understanding of medieval Jewish thought.The section on Sefer Ḥasidim brings together over half a century of Soloveitchik’s writings on German Pietism, many of which originally appeared in obscure publications, and adds two new essays. The first of these is a methodological study of how to read this challenging work and an exposition of what constitutes a valid historical inference, while the second reviews the validity of the sociological and anthropological inferences presented in contemporary historiography. In discussing Ravad’s oeuvre, Soloveitchik questions the widespread notion that Ravad’s chief accomplishment was his commentary on Maimonides’ Mishneh torah; his Talmud commentary, he claims, was of far greater importance and was his true masterpiece. He also adds a new study that focuses on the acrimony between Ravad, as the low-born genius of Posquières, and R. Zerahyah ha-Levi of Lunel, who belonged to the Jewish aristocracy of Languedoc, and considers the implications of that relationship.Continuing his major contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical German Pietists and their main literary work Sefer Ḥasidim, and on the writings and personality of the Provençal commentator Ravad of Posquières. In both areas he challenges reigning views and sets a new agenda for research.
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PPN (Katalog-ID):	1742099890

Personen:	Soloveitchik, Haym - 1937- [VerfasserIn]

Medienart:	Buch
Formangabe:	Aufsatzsammlung
Umfang:	xvi, 454 Seiten
Sprache:	Englisch

Erschienen:	London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization ; 2020 Liverpool: Liverpool University Press ; 2020 New York, NY: Oxford University Press

Basisklassifikation:	11.29 Judentum: Sonstiges Religionswissenschaft
Schlagwörter:	Sefer ḥasidim Avraham ben Daṿid, mi-Posḳir

Allgemeiner Hinweis:	Enthält Essays zum "Sefer Hasidim" und zum "Ravad of Posquières"

Ungezählte Reihe:	The Littman Library of Jewish civilization
Übergeordnetes Werk:	Collected essays - Volume 3
Bibliogr. Zusammenhang:	Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Collected essays ; Volume 3 - Soloveitchik, Haym, 1937 -, London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2020, 1 Online-Ressource (472 Seiten)

Links:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
ISBN:	978-1-904113-99-7