A bas-relief of Maimonides, sculpted by Brenda Putnam, hangs in the U.S. House of Representatives among statues of historical lawmakers. Architect of the Capitol/Wikimedia I teach a philosophy of ...
Rosner’s book was written primarily for non-practicing Jews perplexed by Judaism in general and by apparent contradictions ...
About 800 years before the Pew study, Moses Maimonides received a worried letter from the leader of the Jewish community of Yemen asking him how to combat the specter of assimilation. Yemenite Jews ...
The lost original of Maimonides’ third part of the “Guide to the Perplexed”, written in Arabic, has been recovered and presented to the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, by Mrs.
The copy is a handwritten adorned copy of the Guide of the Perplexed in which Maimonides interpreted the Hebrew Bible. An almost 700-year-old text from the Guide of the Perplexed is about to go on ...
Over the past three months, we have examined three distinct classical pieces of Jewish literature: the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud and the Siddur, or Prayerbook. Now we turn to some of the great writers ...
(The Conversation) — I teach a philosophy of religion seminar titled “Faith and Reason.” Most students who register arrive with a mistaken assumption: that the course explores the differences between ...
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(MENAFN- The Conversation) I teach a philosophy of religion seminar titled“Faith and Reason.” Most students who register arrive with a mistaken assumption: that the course explores the differences ...