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Authors: Norbert M. Samuelson
ISBN-13: 9780521089494, ISBN-10: 0521089492
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Norbert M. Samuelson

Norbert M. Samuelson is the Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies and Full Professor of Jewish Philosophy in the Religious Studies Department at Arizona State University. He is an internationally renowned scholar of Jewish philosophy and the author of six books including Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation (Cambridge, 1994 HB: 0521452147) and most recently A Users' Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's 'Star of Redemption '(1999).

Book Synopsis

Explores the concept of revelation as it emerges from the Hebrew Scriptures and is interpreted in Jewish philosophy and theology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction1
Pt. IThe God of Revelation
1The God of Israel11
2The God of the philosophers22
3The God of the theologians42
4Franz Rosenzweig63
Pt. IIIs the God of Revelation Believable?
5The challenges of political ethics - issues of racism and the irrational93
6The challenges of modern science121
7The challenges of modern philosophy - rethinking God170
8Are the Hebrew Scriptures revealed?221
Conclusion236
Works cited242
Index of names248
Index of subjects250

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