Breaking with received opinion, this book seeks to challenge the exclusionary, essentialist, and even totalitarian nature that is inherent to the practice of what is problematically referred to as 'Jewish philosophy'. Hughes begins with the premise that Jewish philosophy, as it …
Breaking with received opinion, this book seeks to challenge the exclusionary, essentialist, and even totalitarian nature that is inherent to the practice of what is problematically referred to as 'Jewish philosophy'. Hughes begins with the premise that Jewish philosophy, as it …
Aaron Hughes examines the creation and dissemination of 'Abrahamic religions'. Part genealogical and part analytical, his study seeks to raise and answer questions about the appropriateness and usefulness of employing these religions as a vehicle for understanding and classifyin…
The Jewish political tradition
by Walzer, Michael, Lorberbaum, Menachem, Zohar, Noam J.
"This comprehensive introduction to the various collections of biblical literature used by Jews, Catholics, and Protestants gives the beginner clear, concise, and engaging entries into each book while covering major controversies. The authors show how various biblical books have…
"My 2009 book, The Mind behind the Gospels: a Commentary to Matthew 1-14, covered the first half of the Gospel ... I decided to revise that book and integrate it into this one, a commentary on all twenty-eight chapters of Matthew's Gospel."--Preface.
"....A major factor that led to the development of Kabbalah was the adoption by the first Kabbalists of a philosophic ethos that, under the influence of the newly emergent Hebrew philosophic materials, had taken root in Jewish communities in Languedoc and Catalonia. This was an …