A Tree of Life

Louis Jacobs

ISBN 10: 187477448X / ISBN 13: 9781874774488

Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2000

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Inhaltsangabe:

The central thesis of A Tree of Life, now revised and expanded, is that social, economic, theological, and even political factors have always played a part in framing of Jewish law, as has consideration of the wider ideals of Judaism. Through discussion of historical and contemporary halakhic responses to a wide range of issues, Louis Jacobs shows how the halakhic system has demonstrated its potential for vitality, creativity, and sensitivity. Louis Jacobs's call, in the last chapter, for a non-fundamentalist approach to halakhah was a cause of controversy both when the book was first published in 1984 and subsequently. The new introduction written for this edition responds robustly to the criticisms raised, and also summarizes new developments, both halakhic and scholarly, in the various areas covered.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Louis Jacobs, founding rabbi of the New London Synagogue, was a renowned scholar with an international reputation as a lecturer. He was the author of The Jewish Religion: A Companion (1995) and of many other distinguished books, several of them published by the Littman Library, including Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1999), Hasidic Prayer (paperback 1993), and Theology in the Responsa (paperback 2005), as well as an edition and translation of Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein's Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good (1995). He died in 2006.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Tree of Life
Verlag: Liverpool University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: PAP
Zustand: New
Auflage: 2. Auflage