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Judaic sources and Western thought : Jerusalem's enduring presence
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- Creator
- edited by Jonathan A. Jacobs
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- 284 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199583157, 0199583153
- OCLC
- ocn696100361
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-272) and index.
- Part I. Some Judaic roots -- ch. 1. The durability of goodness / Alan Mittleman -- ch. 2. Judaism and the idea of the future / Kenneth Seeskin -- Part II. Judaic culture and politics -- ch. 3. Hebraism : the third culture / Steven Grosby -- ch. 4. The political thought of the biblical history, Genesis-Kings / Yoram Hazony -- Part III. Fundamental elements of morality and moral psychology -- ch. 5. Tradition, rationality, and moral life : medieval Judaism's insight / Jonathan A. Jacobs -- ch. 6. Natural law and Jewish philosophy / David Noval -- Part IV. Medieval and modern politics : Maimonides and Spinoza on reason and revelation -- ch. 7. The politics of fear : idolatry and superstition in Maimonides and Spinoza / Daniel H. Frank -- ch. 8. Torah as political philosophy : Maimonides and Spinoza on religious law / Edward C. Halper -- Part V. Moral personality : enduring influences and continued borrowings -- ch. 9. Dancing in chains : the baffling coexistence of legalism and exuberance in Judaic and Islamic tradition / Ze'ev Maghen -- ch. 10. Individuality / Lenn E. Goodman