Jewish Theology Unbound

ISBN-13: 9780198805694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

James A. Diamond

Opis

This study investigates the practice of Jewish theology by examining themes of love, death, freedom, names of God, angels, the philosophical quest, and Zionism in light of the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish Rabbinic, philosophical, and mystical traditions.

Recenzje

Jewish Theology Unbound is a book of unusual erudition and insight. In it, James Diamond belies the all too common prejudice, held by many Jews and non-Jews, that Judaism cannot be the subject of philosophic reflection because it only presents laws, but no ideas. By carefully overcoming that prejudice, he has shown that genuine philosophic reflection speaks in the first person. In this book, Diamond has found his own voice, therefore putting himself in the company of those Jewish thinkers only about whom he has written heretofore. That is a noteworthy achievement.

O autorze

James A. Diamond is Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on medieval Jewish thought and philosophy. His book Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon (2014) won the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards 2015.