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Perhaps the most controversial form of Jewish philosophy that developed in the early 20th century was the religious naturalism of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, whose theology was a variant of John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy. Kaplan’s naturalism combined nontheist metaphysics with religious terminology to construct a philosophy for those who had ...
Jews, Money, Myth was an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum London in 2019. It was made in collaboration with the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London with the academic collaboration from David Feldman, Anthony Bale , and Marc Volovici.
Joseph Albo (Hebrew: יוסף אלבו; c. 1380–1444) was a Jewish philosopher and rabbi who lived in Spain during the fifteenth century, known chiefly as the author of Sefer ha-Ikkarim ("Book of Principles"), the classic work on the fundamentals of Judaism.
A Debate Concerning Determinism in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy, published in Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 5 (1984): pp. 15-54; The Binding of Isaac: A Test-case of Divine Foreknowledge, in Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy, edited by Tamar Rudavsky (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985), pp. 105-134.
Hence, if one lent "food money," or monetary tokens of any kind, it was legitimate to charge interest. [10] Food money in the shape of olives, dates, seeds, or animals was lent out as early as c. 5000 BCE, if not earlier, and records indicate rates of 10–25 percent for silver and 20–35 percent for cereals.
The Heart of Philosophy (1982) The Way of the Physician (1985) Sword of Gnosis: Metaphysics, Cosmology, Tradition (1988) Sorcerers: A Novel (1988) Real Philosophy: An Anthology of the Universal Search for Meaning (introduction and commentary by Jacob Needleman and David Appelbaum) (1990) Money and the Meaning of Life (1991) [17]
He was Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, having held the Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies there. He wrote 13 books and over 200 articles, [2] with research interests in Jewish philosophy, philosophy and religion, philosophy and science, 20th-century philosophy (with an emphasis on Alfred North Whitehead and Franz Rosenzweig), and ...
Elliot R. Wolfson (born November 23, 1956) is a scholar of Jewish studies, comparative mysticism, and the philosophy of religion.. Wolfson earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Near Eastern and Judaic studies from Brandeis University, where he trained under the supervision of Alexander Altmann.