An authoritative work in the philosophy of Judaism with chapters engaging in Biblical, Talmudic, Medieval, Rationalistic, and Mystical texts to offer clear and extensive analysis of how Jewish philosophy might have looked in an analytic age.

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• List of Contributors


• 1: Samuel Lebens Dani Rabinowitz, and Aaron Segal: Introduction


• PART I: TALMUDIC AND RABBINIC PHILOSOPHY


• 2: Eli Hirsch: Talmudic Destiny


• 3: Aaron Segal: Metaphysics out of the Sources of the Halakha or a Halakhic Metaphysic?


• 4: Jeffrey S. Helmreich: A Jurisprudential Puzzle as Old as the Talmud


• 5: Samuel Lebens: A Commentary on a Midrash: Metaphors about Metaphor


• 6: Dani Rabinowitz: Catharsis and the Epistemology of Repentance in the Talmud and Jewish Law


• PART II: MAIMONIDEAN PHILOSOPHY


• 7: Mark Steiner: Hume and Maimonides on Imaginability and Possibility


• 8: Daniel Frank: Dispassion, God, and Nature: Maimonides and Spinoza


• 9: Josef Stern: Maimonides and his Predecessors on Dying for God as "Sanctification of the Name of God"


• PART III: PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY


• 10: Howard Wettstein: The Fabric of Faith


• 11: David Shatz: Should Theists Eschew Theodicies?


• 12: Tyron Goldschmidt: A Proof of Exodus: Yehuda HaLevy and Jonathan Edwards Walk into a Bar


• 13: Joshua Golding: Atzmut and Sefirot: A New Approach


• PART IV: ETHICS AND VALUE THEORY


• 14: Shira Weiss: The Morality of Biblical Deception: Misleading Truths, Geneivat Daat, and Jacobs Deception of Isaac


• 15: Yonatan Y. Brafman: Neither Authoritarian nor Superfluous: A Normative Account of Rabbinic Authority


• 16: Melis Erdur: A Classical Jewish Approach to The "Normative Question"


• 17: Saul Smilansky: The Good, the Bad, and the Nonidentity Problem


• PART V: SYMPOSIUM


• 18: Tzvi Novick, and Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz, and Aaron Segal: Jewish Studies and Analytic Philosophy of Judaism


• Index

Samuel Lebens is Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa. He works in early analytic philosophy, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions (Routledge, 2017). Along with his two co-editors, Dani Rabinowitz and Aaron Segal, he co-founded the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism.
Dani Rabinowitz earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He then held a Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College, Oxford. He is currently a solicitor at Clifford Chance LLP. Together with Matthew Benton and John Hawthorne, he co-edited Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology (OUP, 2018).
Aaron Segal is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on metaphysics, the afterlife, faith, and divine attributes. He is the co-editor of Jewish Philosophy Past and Present (with Daniel Frank; Routledge, 2016).