Science in the Bet Midrash
Subtitle: studies in Maimonides
By: Menachem Kellner.
Series: EMUNOT: Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Brighton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781934843215
Subjects: Maimonides, Moses, -- 1135-1204
Table of contents: title: PartI: Approaches to the study of Maimonides; title: Introduction to part one: Approaches to the study of Maimonides; title: Reading Rambam approaches to the interpretation of Maimonides; title: Strauss' Maimonides vs. Maimonides' Maimonides : could Maimonides have been both enlightened and Orthodox?; title: The literary character of the Mishneh Torah : on the art of writing in Maimonides' Halakhic works; title: Is Maimonides' ideal person austerely rationalist?; title: Part II: Religious faith and dogma; title: Introduction to part two: Religious faith and dogma; title: Heresy and the nature of faith in medieval Jewish philosophy; title: What is heresy?; title: Maimonides' thirteen principles and the structure of the guide of the perplexed; title: Maimonides, Crescas, and Abravanel on Ex. 20:2 : a medieval Jewish exegetical dispute; title: Could Maimonides get into Rambam's heaven?; title: Returning the crown to its ancient glory : Marc Shapiro's the limits of Orthodox theology : Maimonides' thirteen principles reappraised; title: The virtue of faith; title: Part III: Science and Torah; title: Introduction to part three: Science and Torah; title: On the status of the astronomy and physics in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and guide of the perplexed : a chapter in the history of science; title: Maimonides on the science of the Mishneh Torah : provisional or permanent?; title: Maimonides' allegiances to science and Judaism; title: Faith, science, and orthodoxy; title: Part IV: Universalism; title: Introduction to part four: Universalism; title: Chosenness not chauvinism; title: Maimonides on the chosen people; title: Was Maimonides truly universalist?; title: Maimonides' true religion for Jews or all humanity; title: Spirituality and a life of holiness : how one lives a holy life and who can do it.