Jewish Philosophy

Averroes – Ein Aufklärer im Mittelalter?

by Stefan Schick

"published in 'Philosophische Rundschau', 2012"

איגרתו של הרמב"ם לר' חסדאי

by Tzvi Langermann

מספר הזכרון לפרופ' ישראל תא-שמע

I return to the question of "pseudo-Maimonideana" and the letter purportedly written by Maimonides to R.... more I return to the question of "pseudo-Maimonideana" and the letter purportedly written by Maimonides to R. Hisdai, adduce a new textual witness, argue for its authenticity, and suggest a context.

Yemeni Commentaries to Maimonides' Guide

by Tzvi Langermann

Confucian Ethics/ Jewish Philosophy

by Carlos Yebra Lopez

Review essay of Ben Sommer's excellent book, Bodies of God

by Aaron Koller

What is Jewish (If Anything) about Isaiah Berlin’s Philosophy?

by Arie Dubnov

part of a Special Issue: " Between Religion and Ethnicity: Twentieth-Century Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture". Published in Religions vol. 3, no. 2: pp. 289-319.

This paper has two central aims: First, to reappraise Isaiah Berlin’s political thought in a historically... more This paper has two central aims: First, to reappraise Isaiah Berlin’s political thought in a historically contextualized way, and in particular: to pay attention to a central conceptual tensions which animates it between, on the one hand, his famous definition of liberalism as resting on a negative concept of liberty and, on the other, his defense of cultural nationalism in general and Zionism in particular. Second, to see what do we gain and what do we lose by dubbing his philosophy Jewish. The discussion will proceed as follows: after describing the conceptual tension (Section 1), I will examine Berlin’s discussion of nationalism and explain why comparisons between him and Hans Kohn as well as communitarian interpretations of him are incomplete and have limited merit. I will continue with a brief discussion of Berlin’s Jewishness and Zionism (Section 3) and explain why I define this position “Diaspora Zionism”. The two concluding sections will discuss Berlin’s place within a larger Cold War liberal discourse (Section 5) and why I find it problematic to see his political writings as part of a Jewish political tradition (Section 6).
Keywords: Berlin, Isaiah (1909–1997); Kohn, Hans (1891–1971); Namier, Lewis B. (1880–1960); Shklar, Judith N. (1928–1992); nationalism; communitarianism; Cold War liberalism; Jewish political tradition

Science and the Kuzari

by Tzvi Langermann

Published in Science in Context, 1997, still the only study I know of the place of science in the Kuzari.

The Hebrew Bible and meta-ethics

by Jaco Gericke

The Hebrew Bible in Nietzsche's philosophy of religion

by Jaco Gericke

My apologies. The previous upload was the wrong paper!

"Family Resemblances: Ludwig Wittgenstein as a Jewish Philosopher," forthcoming, Bamidbar 2012.

by David Suchoff

Les antiphilosophes (Paris, Armand Colin 2011) - Préface

by Ron Naiweld

Book Review: Monotheism and Ethics, ed. Tzvi Langermann

by Meir Simchah Panzer

Originally published to bible-philos list.

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Manuskripte im Portrait: Eine Sprache, viele Schriften

by Gregor Schwarb أغريغور شوارب גריגור שוורב

published in:
Newsletter of the Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 2 (2011):4.
A more detailed study of these manuscripts is in preparation.

On a Samaritan copy of Maimonides’ Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn (Arabic in Arabic script, Hebrew in Samaritan script) and... more On a Samaritan copy of Maimonides’ Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn (Arabic in Arabic script, Hebrew in Samaritan script) and excerpts from al-Rashīd Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Tiryāq al-ʿuqūl in a 17th century Garshūnī manuscript.

Gersonides on Astrology

by Tzvi Langermann

This appeared as an appendix in volume three of Seymour Feldman's translation of Levi ben Gershom, Gersonides, The Wars of the Lord (books 5-6), published by JPS-JTSA, 199.

Philosophy as a Symbolic Institution in Medieval Judaism: Sacred Texts and Social Control

by Tamás Visi

letters of hebrew alphabet_2_8

by Tzvi Langermann

Philosophers and scientists,not just mystics, explored the deeper significance of the letters of the alphabet; here I... more Philosophers and scientists,not just mystics, explored the deeper significance of the letters of the alphabet; here I discuss two hitherto unknown treatises on the topic.

תפילה וניכור פירוש למעשה ממלך עניו במסר קיסרי

by Dror Bar-yosef

blog post

פירוש, למעשה ממלך עניו של רבי נחמן מברסלב ומסר קיסרי של פרנץ קפקא, המתמקד ביחסי בין האדם לאלהיו והאדם לזולתו פירוש, למעשה ממלך עניו של רבי נחמן מברסלב ומסר קיסרי של פרנץ קפקא, המתמקד ביחסי בין האדם לאלהיו והאדם לזולתו

Review of Tamar RUDAVSKY, Maimonides

by Daniel Davies

Book Review: Jacob Howland, Plato and the Talmud

by Meir Simchah Panzer

Favorable book review published to Bible-Philos listserv (bible-philos@shalem.org.il).

Bibliografia degli studi su Leone Hebreo (Jehudah Abravanel)

by Thomas Gilbhard

in: Accademia. Revue de la Société Marsile Ficin», VI, 2004, p. 113–134