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Jacob Gordin: The Religious Crisis in Jewish Thought

Religions, 2022
This article offers an English translation of an essay published in 1946 by Jacob Gordin (1896–1947), a Russian-Jewish philosopher of religion, who is considered the founding figure of the postwar Paris School of Jewish Thought (École de pensée juive ...
Ori Werdiger
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Religion without God? Approaches to Theological Reference in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought

Religions, 2019
Recent scholarship on both ancient and modern Judaism has criticized the identification of Judaism as a religion. From the perspective of the modern period, what has remained unaddressed is the very peculiar religion that Jewish philosophers and ...
Cass Fisher
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Postsecular Jewish Thought: Franz Rosenzweig, Alexander Altmann, Leo Strauss

Religions
This article traces the emergence of what is nowadays called “postsecular” religion from German-Jewish philosophy of the 1920s and 1930s. The three different cases of Franz Rosenzweig, Alexander Altmann, and Leo Strauss impel us to pay particular ...
Philipp von Wussow
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Philosophy and Jewish Thought

The relationship between philosophy and Jewish thought has often been a matter of lively discussion. But despite its long tradition and the variety of positions that have been taken in it, the debate is far from being closed and keeps meeting new challenges.
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Shagar’s Mystical Space: Moving between the Languages of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and Rav Kook

Religions, 2021
This paper presents an analysis of the conflictual relationship between Shagar’s [Shimon Gershon Rosenberg] use of kabbalistic and Hasidic traditions and his search for mysticism via psychoanalysis and Continental philosophy.
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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Four Jewish Visions of the Garden of Eden

Religions, 2023
What was life like for Adam and Eve before they sinned? What was their sin? What was this mysterious Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? The views on these questions of four major Jewish thinkers: Moses Maimonides (1138–1204), Moses Nahmanides (1194–1270)
Warren Zev Harvey
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Birth, Sehnsucht and Creation: Reading Buber between Plato and Kierkegaard

Religions, 2022
Martin Buber conceives human potential through the trope of pregnancy and birth. His portrayal of this phenomenon in I and Thou comprises a natural connection between mother and child during pregnancy and the potential for future, spiritual connections ...
Evyatar Varman
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Where Is the Palestinian Talmud Going?

Religions, 2021
Where does the archive of the Rabbinic Rhetorical Schools in Sepphoris, Caesarea and Tiberias belong in the formation of modern subjectivity and humanity?
Sergey Dolgopolski
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And G-d Created Wife: How Did the Modern Other Emerge?

Religions, 2021
Asking the question of the emergence of the modern other, the paper explores the inversion of relationships between wife and woman, husband and man in an archeological analysis of a Talmudic reading by Emmanuel Levinas “And God Created Woman.” The ...
Sergey Dolgopolski
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Judges 19-21: The Disasters of the Community of Virtue

Religions, 2020
This paper is an ethical exegesis of the biblical story of Gibeah, which concludes the Book of Judges (19–21), to show the catastrophic failure of the anti-political politics of the “community of virtue”, i.e., the rejection of power for the sake of ...
Richard Cohen
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