Plato and the Talmud Hardback - Hardcover

Howland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521193133 ISBN 13: 9780521193139

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Sees the relationship between Athens and Jerusalem through the lens of the Platonic dialogues and the Talmud. Howland argues that these texts are animated by comparable conceptions of the proper roles of reasoned debate in religious life, and by an awareness of the limits of our understanding of things divine.

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Críticas:

'Jacob Howland's Plato and the Talmud is a splendid addition to the small - but growing and distinguished - body of work in the secular academy, which takes as its fundamental principle that teaching and scholarship in the humanities must include a basic knowledge of the great Rabbinic corpus of the first millennium of the Common Era. And here Howland shows with remarkable clarity that the Rabbinic material has a tight conceptual relationship to one of the other formative traditions of western culture, namely Greek philosophy of the Platonic school. This is a remarkable book, wide in its knowledge, graceful in its presentation, modest in its posture: exactly what real scholarship should be.' Donald Harman Akenson, author of Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds

Biografía del autor:

Jacob Howland is McFarlin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2006), The Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates' Philosophic Trial (1998) and The Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy (1993). He also edited A Long Way Home: The Story of a Jewish Youth, 1939–1948, by Bob Golan (2005) and has published numerous articles.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521193133
• ISBN 13: 9780521193139
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294