Rabbi Joseph Albo's Concept of Free Choice in His Philosophic Exegesis
Author : Shira Weiss
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN :
Author : Shira Weiss
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN :
Author : Shira Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190684437
Scripture is replete with narratives that challenge a variety of philosophical concepts; including morality, divine benevolence, and human freedom. Free choice, a significant and much debated concept in medieval philosophy, continues to be of great interest to contemporary philosophers and others. However, scholarship in biblical studies has primarily focused on compositional history, philology, and literary analysis, not on the examination of the philosophy implied in biblical texts. In this book, Shira Weiss focuses on the Hebrew Bible's encounter with the philosophical notion of free choice, as interpreted by the fifteenth-century Spanish Jewish philosopher Joseph Albo in one of the most popular Hebrew works in the corpus of medieval Jewish philosophy: Albo's Examining narratives commonly interpreted as challenging human freedom--the Binding of Isaac, the Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart, the Book of Job, and God's Choice of Israel--Albo puts forward innovative arguments that preserve the concept of free choice in these texts. Despite the popularity of The Book of Principles, Albo has been commonly dismissed as an unoriginal thinker. As a result, argues Weiss, the major original contribution of his philosophy-his theory of free choice as explained in unique exegetical interpretations-has been overlooked. This book casts new light on Albo by demonstrating both the central importance of his views on free choice in his philosophy and the creative ways in which they are presented.
Author : Shira Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190684429
Joseph Albo on Free Choice discovers unsuspected philosophical originality in the interpretations of biblical narrative found in Joseph Albo's Book of Principles. Free choice, a significant topic during a historical period of religious coercion, emerges as a conceptual theme throughout his work.
Author : Choon-Leong Seow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110568470
the Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception (HBR) provide comprehensive introductions to individual topics in biblical reception history. They address a wide range of academic fields and interdisciplinary matters, including reception of the Bible in various contexts and historical periods; in diverse geographic areas; in particular cultural, social, and political contexts; and in relation to important biblical themes, topics, and figures.
Author : Jason Kalman
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0878201955
Despite its general absence from the Jewish liturgical cycle and its limited place in Jewish practice, the Book of Job has permeated Jewish culture over the last 2,000 years. Job has not only had to endure the suffering described in the biblical book, but the efforts of countless commentators, interpreters, and creative rewriters whose explanations more often than not challenged the protagonist's righteousness in order to preserve Divine justice. Beginning with five critical essays on the specific efforts of ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish writers to make sense of the biblical book, this volume concludes with a detailed survey of the place of Job in the Talmud and Midrashic corpus, in medieval biblical commentary, in ethical, mystical, and philosophical tracts, as well as in poetry and creative writing in a wide variety of Jewish languages from around the world from the second to sixteenth centuries.
Author : Andrew D. Berns
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0812298314
Based on the biblical commentaries of rabbis and writers who were exiled from Spain in 1492, The Land Is Mine presents late medieval and early modern Iberian Jewish intellectuals as deeply concerned with questions about human relationships to land.
Author : Jerome A. Unger
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 1960
Category :
ISBN :
Author : The Philosopher Rabbi Yosef Albo
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781617046032
Sefer HaIkkarim - BOOK OF PRINCIPLES The Philosopher Rabbi Yosef Albo
Author : Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Ibn Ezra addresses the importance of the knowledge of grammar, stating that one cannot fully understand the text of the Torah without it. He also discusses the study of the Bible and the Talmud, arguing that one cannot properly comprehend the Talmud if one does not know the sciences, for there are many passages in the Pentateuch and the Talmud that are either incomprehensible or given to misinterpretation by one who has no prior knowledge of the sciences.
Author : T. M. Rudavsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192557653
T. M. Rudavsky presents a new account of the development of Jewish philosophy from the tenth century to Spinoza in the seventeenth, viewed as part of an ongoing dialogue with medieval Christian and Islamic thought. Her aim is to provide a broad historical survey of major figures and schools within the medieval Jewish tradition, focusing on the tensions between Judaism and rational thought. This is reflected in particular philosophical controversies across a wide range of issues in metaphysics, language, cosmology, and philosophical theology. The book illuminates our understanding of medieval thought by offering a much richer view of the Jewish philosophical tradition, informed by the considerable recent research that has been done in this area.