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This book explores one of the great questions of our time: How can we preserve our sense of what it means to be a person while at the same time accepting what science tells us to be true-namely, that human nature is continuous with the rest of nature? What, in other words, does it mean to be a person in a world of things? Alan Mittleman shows how the Jewish tradition provides rich ways of understanding human nature and personhood that preserve human dignity and distinction in a world of neuroscience, evolutionary biology, biotechnology, and pervasive scientism. These ancient resources can speak to Jewish, non-Jewish, and secular readers alike.Science may tell us what we are, Mittleman says, but it cannot tell us who we are, how we should live, or why we matter. Traditional Jewish thought, in open-minded dialogue with contemporary scientific perspectives, can help us answer these questions. Mittleman shows how, using sources ranging across the Jewish tradition, from the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud to more than a millennium of Jewish philosophy. Among the many subjects the book addresses are sexuality, birth and death, violence and evil, moral agency, and politics and economics. Throughout, Mittleman demonstrates how Jewish tradition brings new perspectives to-and challenges many current assumptions about-these central aspects of human nature.A study of human nature in Jewish thought and an original contribution to Jewish philosophy, this is a book for anyone interested in what it means to be human in a scientific age.

Respect for persons (Jewish law) --- Judaism --- Theological anthropology --- Philosophical anthropology. --- 296*6 --- Anthropology, Philosophical --- Man (Philosophy) --- Civilization --- Life --- Ontology --- Humanism --- Persons --- Philosophy of mind --- Man (Jewish theology) --- Jewish theology --- Theology, Jewish --- Jewish law --- 296*6 Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- Doctrines. --- Judaism. --- Philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- Doctrines

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That the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, "the God of the Jews," is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts of that God, by contemporary standards, as well as by the classic problem of evil. In this book, Jerome Gellman aims to alleviate the first challenge, the so-called ideological critique, for the traditional believer by recommending replacing the God of the Jews with a different God, a "Jewish God," one in whom many traditional Jews have come to believe. And the problem of evil is lightened for the traditional believer, mainly by a possible theodicy explaining much evil. The book is at once analytic in style and Hasidic in broad orientation.

God (Judaism) --- Orthodox Judaism --- 296*6 --- Jewish sects --- Ex-Orthodox Jews --- Judaism --- 296*6 Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- Doctrines --- Doctrines. --- Critique of post-modernism. --- God. --- Hasidic Judaism. --- Hasidic thought. --- Hasidism. --- Jewish theology. --- Judaism. --- Old Testament. --- apologetics. --- belief. --- epistemology. --- evil. --- humility response. --- modern religious life. --- morality. --- perfect goodness. --- philosophy. --- possible theodicy. --- religious philosophy. --- theology. --- truth.

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Qumran community --- Essenes --- Rabbinical literature --- Communauté de Qumran --- Esséniens --- Littérature rabbinique --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- 296*6 --- -Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature --- Kumran community --- Jewish sects --- Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- Qumran community. --- Essenes. --- History and criticism. --- -Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- 296*6 Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- -Kumran community --- Communauté de Qumrān --- Esséniens --- Littérature rabbinique

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The Talmud - the Mishnah, a philosophical law code, and the Gemara, a dialectical commentary upon the Mishnah - works by translating principal modes of Western philosophy and science into the analysis of the rules of rationality governing the rules of humble, everyday reality. Science, in particular the method of hierarchical classification characteristic of natural history, supplies the method of making connections and drawing conclusions to the Mishnah, the law-code that forms the foundation-document of the Talmud, as Neusner demonstrated in his Judaism as Philosophy. The Method and Message of the Mishnah. Here he proceeds to show how philosophy, specifically dialectical analysis, defines the logic of the Gemara and guides the writers of the Gemara's compositions and the compilers of its composites in their analysis and amplification of some of the topical presentations, or tractates, of the Mishnah.

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Contemporary theology, and Jewish theology in particular, Michael Fishbane asserts, now lies fallow, beset by strong critiques from within and without. For Jewish reality, a coherent and wide-ranging response in thoroughly modern terms is needed. Sacred Attunement is Fishbane's attempt to renew Jewish theology for our time, in the larger context of modern and postmodern challenges to theology and theological thought in the broadest sense. The first part of the book regrounds theology in this setting and opens up new pathways through nature, art, and the theological dimension as a whole. In the second section, Fishbane introduces his hermeneutical theology-one grounded in the interpretation of scripture as a distinctly Jewish practice. The third section focuses on modes of self-cultivation for awakening and sustaining a covenant theology. The final section takes up questions of scripture, authority, belief, despair, and obligation as theological topics in their own right. The first full-scale Jewish theology in America since Abraham J. Heschel's God in Search of Man and the first comprehensive Jewish philosophical theology since Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption, Sacred Attunement is a work of uncommon personal integrity and originality from one of the most distinguished scholars of Judaica in our time.

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