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The aim of this study is to demonstrate that, for all the admitted emphasis on peoplehood in the Jewish religious tradition, there are equally strong individualistic tendencies within Judaism which should not be confined to the sidelines. Dr Jacobs maintains that - in any balanced view of Judaism - it needs to be shown that what the individual does with his life has eternal significance for that same individual, not only for the Jewish people as a whole. Through a careful analysis of the primary texts, Jacobs conducts a thorough survey of some of the most important instances where the individual is discussed in the Jewish religious tradition. In so doing, his aim is not to elevate individualism at the expense of the Jewish community, but rather to show that Judaism pivots centrally neither on the people nor on the individual, but rests, rather, on both: his contention, finally, is that each needs to be taken equally into account if a balanced opinion of both is to be formed.

Theological anthropology --- Individualism --- Judaism --- Jewish theology --- Theology, Jewish --- Man (Jewish theology) --- Judaism. --- Religious aspects --- Doctrines. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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Judaism --- Midrash rabbah --- Jewish theology --- Theology, Jewish --- Doctrines. --- Leviticus. --- Midrash --- Jewish literature --- Jewish sermons --- Rabbinical literature

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This book aims to construct a contemporary Jewish philosophy that accounts for virtue ethics or, rather, to give Jewish virtue ethics a contemporary language for its expression. Ira Bedzow draws significantly on the work of Moses Maimonides and his religio-philosophical explanation of Jewish ethics. However, Bedzow moves away from various aspects of Maimonides’s Aristotelian biology, physics, metaphysics, and psychology. The objective of the volume is to integrate the normative principles of the Jewish tradition into everyday life. While the book translates Jewish ethics from a medieval, Aristotelian framework into a contemporary one, it also serves as a means for Judaism to continue as a living tradition. .

Religion. --- Judaism --- Judaism and culture. --- Religion --- Religious Studies. --- Jewish Theology. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Doctrines. --- Philosophy. --- Culture and Judaism --- Jewish theology --- Theology, Jewish --- Religion, Primitive --- Judaism-Doctrines. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Culture --- Judaism—Doctrines. --- Religion—Philosophy.

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Revelation and the God of Israel explores the concept of revelation as it emerges from the Hebrew Scriptures and is interpreted in Jewish philosophy and theology. The first part is a study in intellectual history that attempts to answer the question, what is the best possible understanding of revelation. The second part is a study in constructive theology and attempts to answer the question, is it reasonable to affirm belief in revelation. Here Norbert M. Samuelson focuses on the challenges given from a variety of contemporary academic disciplines, including evolutionary psychology, political ethics, analytic philosophy of religion, and source critical studies of the Bible. This important book offers a unique approach to theological questions and fresh solutions to them and will appeal to those interested in the history of philosophy, religious thought, and Judaism.

God (Judaism) --- Revelation --- Jewish philosophy. --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Revelation (Jewish theology) --- Judaism --- Judaism. --- Philosophy --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That is, in a community thus conceived, the privilege of citizenship is the assumption of the obligations of the city towards Others who are not always in view-workers, the poor, the homeless. These Others form a constitutive part of the city. The second part of the book is a close analysis of homelessness, labor, and restorative justice from within the theory that was developed. This title will be useful for scholars and students in Jewish studies, especially rabbinic literature and Jewish thought, but also for those interested in contemporary urban issues.

Judaism and social problems. --- Justice (Jewish theology) --- Social justice --- Righteousness (Jewish theology) --- Religion and justice --- Social problems and Judaism --- Social problems --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Rabbinical literature --- History and criticism. --- Babylonian Talmud. --- Bible. --- Emmanuel Levinas. --- Jewish theology. --- Rabbinic literature. --- cities. --- class. --- community. --- ethics. --- faith traditions. --- hermeneutics. --- homelessness. --- philosophy. --- polemics. --- politics. --- poverty. --- religion. --- sacred texts. --- social justice. --- Rabbinical literature - History and criticism.