Studies in Jewish thought
By: edited by Joseph Dan.
Contributors: Dan, Joseph, 1935-
Series: Binah ;; v. 2
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Judaism -- History.; Aggada -- History and criticism.; Mysticism -- Judaism -- History.; Jewish scholars.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Articles originally written and published in Hebrew, have been adapted from scholarly journals into English.
Table of contents: title: The celestial temple as viewed in the Aggadah / Victor Aptowitzer; title: Time and its role in the Aggadic story / Jonah Fraenkel; title: The socioreligious orientation of "Sefer Hasidim" / Yitzhak F. Baer; title: The concept of God in hekhalot literature / Rachel Elior; title: Mythological versus systematic trends in Kabbalah / Isaiah Tishby; title: Maimonides and Spinoza on the knowledge of good and evil / Warren Zev Harvey; title: The Gaon of Vilna and the Haskalah movement / Emanuel Etkes; title: Jewish nationalism in the thought of Yehezkel Kaufmann / Ehud Luz; title: Martin Buber as a philosophical interpreter of the Bible / Eliezer Schweid; title: Gershom Scholem : between history and historiosophy / Joseph Dan.