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Louis Jacobs has made a formidable contribution to Jewish scholarship over the last 40 years. In addition he has inspired a generation of students of Judaica as well as members of his own congregation at the New London Synagogue. The contributors to this volume in his honour include a wide range of...

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Other Authors: Jacobs, Louis, Cohn-Sherbok, Dan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: JSOT, 1991
Series:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; 1 From Philosophy to Religion; 2 A Theological Response to Orthodoxies; 3 Defining the Uniqueness of the Holocaust; 4 Leo Baeck: New Dimensions and Explorations; 5 The Human Body and the Image of God; 6 The Classical Tradition in Byzantium; 7 Akkadian Medicine in the Babylonian Talmud; 8 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Biblical Narrative (Genesis 1-4); 9 Saul Levi Morteira''s Eulogy for Menasseh ben Israel; 10 Ownership and Autonomy: Elements of Composition in the ''Book of the Covenant''; 11 Law in Reform Judaism; 12 Moses Mendelssohn''s Concept of Tolerance.
  • 13 The Quest for a Jewish Theology and a Non-Fundamentalist HalakhahBibliography of Louis Jacobs''s Writings; Notes on Contributors; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.