J. David Bleich: Where Halakhah and Philosophy Meet

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30292-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Reihe: Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers

Rabbi J. David Bleich is Professor of Talmud (Rosh Yeshiva) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University, as well as the Director of its Postgraduate Institute for the study of Talmudic Jurisprudence and Family Law. In addition, he holds the Herbert and Florence Tenzer Chair of Jewish Law and Ethics at Yeshiva University and is Professor of Law at the Cardozo School of Law. A foremost authority on Jewish law and ethics, he has written extensively on medical ethics, Jewish law and contemporary social issues, and the interface of Jewish law and the American legal system. As the spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Jehuda in Manhattan, Rabbi Bleich teaches weekly Talmud classes and lectures on Jewish law and philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava

Hughes, Aaron W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Rabbinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Contributors
Editors' Introduction to the Series
J. David Bleich: An Intellectual Portrait, Steven H. Resnicoff
The Halakhic Process, J. David Bleich
Life as an Intrinsic Value, J. David Bleich
Moral Debate and Semantic Sleight of Hand, J. David Bleich
Judaism and Natural Law, J. David Bleich
Reflections, J. David Bleich
Select Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.