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Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought

Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought

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PhilosophyJudaismGeneral Eastern Religions

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ISBN10: 9004233504
ISBN13: 9789004233508
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 1 2012
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
The term medieval performs a great deal more intellectual work in modern Jewish Thought than simply acting as a referent to a particular historical era. During the nineteenth century, often for Jews who were increasingly alienated from their own tradition, the medieval functioned primarily as a bearer of identity in a rapidly changing and secular world. Each chapter in Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought addresses a different return to the medieval, ranging from the Enlightenment to the contemporary period, that clothed itself in the language of renewal and of retrieval. The volume engages the full complexity and range of meaning the term medieval carries for modern Jewish Thought.

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