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We are Not Alone

A Maimonidean Theology of the Other

By: Menachem Marc Kellner

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We are Not Alone

A Maimonidean Theology of the Other

By: Menachem Marc Kellner

How should Jews see themselves and see others--as united by common humanity and purpose, or divided by something inherent? We Are Not Alone grounds a universalist vision of Judaism in texts and teachings of the tradition, especially those of Maimonides.

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1644696142

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Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People

Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge

By: Menachem Marc Kellner,Professor Menachem Kellner

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Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People

Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge

By: Menachem Marc Kellner,Professor Menachem Kellner

Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People explores Maimonides' philosophical psychology, his ethics, his views on prophecy, providence, and immortality, his understanding of the place of gentiles in the Messianic area, his attitude toward proselytes, his answer to the question, "Who is a Jew?", his conception of the nature of Torah, and his arguments concerning the nature of the Chosen People. With respect to each of these issues, Kellner shows that Maimonides adopted positions that reflected his emphasis on nurture over nature and his insistence that it is intellectual perfection and not ethnic affiliation which is crucial.

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SUNY Press

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0791406911

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9780791406915

Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

By: Menachem Marc Kellner

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Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

By: Menachem Marc Kellner

Moses Maimonides, medieval Judaism's leading legist and philosopher, and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish self-understanding, held a view of Judaism which maintained the authority of the Talmudic rabbis in matters of Jewish law while allowing for free and open inquiry in matters of science and philosophy. Maimonides affirmed, not the superiority of the "moderns" (the scholars of his and subsequent generations) over the "ancients" (the Tannaim and Amoraim, the Rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud) but the inherent equality of the two. The equality presented here is not equality of halakhic authority, but equality of ability, of essential human characteristics. In order to substantiate these claims, Kellner explores the related idea that Maimonides does not adopt the notion of "the decline of the generations," according to which each succeeding generation, or each succeeding epoch, is in some significant and religiously relevant sense inferior to preceding generations or epochs.

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0791429210

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9780791429211

Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

By: Menachem Marc Kellner

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Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People

Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge

By: Menachem Marc Kellner,Professor Menachem Kellner

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Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge

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Universalist Horizons of Maimonides

Mishneh Torah

By: Kellner,Gillis

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Universalist Horizons of Maimonides

Mishneh Torah

By: Kellner,Gillis

Maimonides ends each book of his legal code the Mishneh torah with a moral or philosophical reflection, in which he lifts his eyes, as it were, from purely halakhic concerns and surveys broader horizons. Menachem Kellner and David Gillis analyse these concluding paragraphs, examining their verbal and thematic echoes, their adaptation of rabbinic sources, and the way in which they coordinate with the Mishneh torah's underlying structures, in order to understand how they might influence our interpretation of the code as a whole - and indeed our view of Maimonides himself and his philosophy. Taking this unusual cross-section of the work, Kellner and Gillis conclude that the Mishneh torah presents not only a system of law, but also a system of universal values. They show how Maimonides fashions Jewish law and ritual as a programme for attaining ethical and intellectual ends that are accessible to all human beings, who are created equally in the image of God. Many reject the presentation of Maimonides as a universalist. The Mishneh torah especially is widely seen as a particularist sanctuary. This study shows how profoundly that view must be revised.

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Littman Library of Jewish

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1906764557

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We are Not Alone

We are Not Alone

Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People

Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People

Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People

Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People

Universalist Horizons of Maimonides

Universalist Horizons of Maimonides

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