Moses Maimonides and Chaim Volozhiner
How Judaism Continues after the Deliteralization of God
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 30 March 2026
- ISBN 9781032647951
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages322 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This book explores some of the broad based philosophical and theological issues about human understanding of God, the role of Messianism in worldly affairs and the mystical notion of eyn Sof.
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Moses Maimonides and Reb Chaim Volozhiner are among the most famous and influential medieval and early modern writers offering theoretical resolutions about how to comprehend the concept of God.
Aryeh Botwinick explores some of the broad based philosophical and theological issues about human understanding of God, the role of Messianism in worldly affairs and the mystical notion of Eyn Sof. He forefronts the privacy of language and highlights the continuity between monotheistic discourse, scientific discourse, moral discourse, and common sense. In particular he analyses the views of the famed medieval Jewish philosopher, Moses Maimonides (1138–1204), and the modern Talmudic master, Chaim Volozhiner (1749–1841). The author’s contention is that the scope of their contributions is much wider than is generally understood.
This book will appeal to readers with an interest in Talmudic and Maimonidean studies; students of intellectual history of various monotheistic religions; and scholars and journalists specializing in Mideast conflict as well as in domestic and international internecine warfare.
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Introduction 1. The Simultaneous Genesis of Monotheism and Skepticism in Jewish Religion 2. Divine Unknowability versus Divine Non-Existence 3. Maimonides’ Theorizing of the Monotheistic God 4. Maimonides’ Ideal-Typological Portrait of the Judge 5. Maimonides on Prophecy 6. Avicenna: Negative Theology, Skepticism, and Mysticism 7. Rabbinic Genealogy: Rabbi Akiva as a Precursor of Maimonides’ Negative Theology 8. The West’s Stationary Metaphysical Moment: St Anselm's Ontological Argument 9. Reb Chaim Volozhiner as Rooted in Maimonides’ Negative Theology 10. Weak Messianism as the Good: A Classical Liberal Translation of Negative Theology 11. Horizontality vs. Verticality: New Readings in the Understanding of Religion and the Organizing of Politics 12. The Case for a Negative Theological Hermeneutic of the Biblical Text 13. Maimonides' Philosophy of Prayer: The Impact of Negative Theology in Reconceiving the Nature and Role of Prayer
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