05192cam a2200697Ma 4500 ocn785776761 OCoLC 20200709055554.0 m d cr cn||||||||| 110110s2011 mau ob 001 0 eng d E7B eng pn E7B OCLCQ YDXCP HNW N$T OCLCQ ORU IDEBK OCLCQ EBLCP OCLCQ AZK AGLDB MOR PIFAG OTZ ZCU OCLCQ MERUC OCLCQ U3W BETBC JSTOR 777191984 922977643 961516128 962583246 9781618110602 (electronic bk.) 1618110608 (electronic bk.) 9781618117915 (electronic bk.) 1618117912 (electronic bk.) 9781936235247 (hardback) 1936235242 (hardback) 474924 (N$T) (OCoLC)785776761 (OCoLC)777191984 (OCoLC)922977643 (OCoLC)961516128 (OCoLC)962583246 22573/ctt21jr8c1 JSTOR BM534 .B47 2011eb REL 040090 bisacsh PHI022000 bisacsh 296.3/9 22 MAIN Berger, David, 1943- Cultures in collision and conversation : essays in the intellectual history of the Jews / David Berger. Essays in the intellectual history of the Jews Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011. 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Judaism and Jewish life Includes bibliographical references and index. The cultural environment : challenge and response. Identity, ideology, and faith : some personal reflections on the social, cultural, and spiritual value of the academic study of Judaism ; Judaism and general culture in medieval and early modern times ; How die Nahmanides propose to resolve the Maimonidean controversy? ; Miracles and the natural order in Nahmanides ; Polemic, exegesis, philosophy, and science : reflections on the tenacity of Ashkenazic modes of thought ; Malbim's secular knowledge and his relationship to the spirit of the Haskalah ; The uses of Maimonides by twentieth-century Jewry ; The Institute for Jewish Studies on its eightieth anniversary -- Interpreting the Bible. "The wisest of all men" : Solomon's wisdom in medieval Jewish commentaries on the Book of Kings ; On the morality of the patriarchs in Jewish polemic and exegesis -- Yearning for redemption. Three typological themes in early Jewish Messianism : Messiah son of Joseph, rabbinic calculations, and the figure of Armilus ; Some ironic consequences of Maimonides' rationalist approach to the Messianic age ; Sephardic and Ashkenazic Messianism in the Middle Ages : an examination of the historiographical controversy ; Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus : the impact of Zionism on Joseph Klausner's history of the second temple ; The fragility of religious doctrine : accounting for orthodox acquiescence in the belief in a second coming -- Epilogue. The image of his father : on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Hadoar Author Isaiah Berger. In Cultures in Collision and Conversation, David Berger addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered by this issue in medieval and modern times, the impact of Christian challenges and differing philosophical orientations on Jewish interpretation of the Bible, and Messianic visions, movements, and debates from antiquity to the present. These essays include a monograph-length study of Jewish attitudes toward general culture in medieval and early modern times, analyses of the thought of Maimonides and Nahmanides, an assessment of the reactions to the most recent messianic movement in Jewish history, and reflections on the value of the academic study of Judaism. --From publisher's description. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Judaism Relations. Intercultural communication Religious aspects Judaism. Judaism History. Jews History. Jews Intellectual life. Messianic era (Judaism) RELIGION Judaism Theology. bisacsh PHILOSOPHY / Religious bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Berger, David, 1943- Cultures in collision and conversation. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011 (DLC) 2010054451 Judaism and Jewish life. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=474924 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=474924 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3110448 ebrary EBRY ebr10528139 EBSCOhost EBSC 474924 ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection IDEB cis26803956 YBP Library Services YANK 7418395 92 N$T 51516 51516