The Kuzari
Autor Judah Halevien Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 sep 1987
Considered the crowning intellectual achievement of a renowned medieval Jewish poet, The Kuzari stages a fictional dialogue between a Jewish sage and the king of the central Asian Khazars. Comprising five treatises, it constructs a systematic defense of the truth of Judaism against the criticisms and attacks leveled from four different directions: proponents of Aristotelian philosophy, Christianity, Islam, and non-rabbinic Karaite Judaism. By focusing on axial moments in the Jewish narrative, considered empirically true because of the large number of witnesses to these events, Halevi innovates the concept of a Divine Order as the central principle of Judaism, which removes the Jewish people from the normal restraints of nature and history.
This translation, the first from the original Judaeo-Arabic in 120 years, features an introduction that traces the life, thought, and impact of this remarkable thinker; detailed notes that provide historical and linguistic context; and an exploration of the text’s enduring influence on Jewish thought and culture.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780805200751
ISBN-10: 0805200754
Pagini: 322
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0805200754
Pagini: 322
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Recenzii
“This volume is a heroic feat, nothing short of revolutionary. Halevi’s Kuzari can now take its rightful place alongside Maimonides’s Guide for the Perplexed as the two most original and influential works in medieval Jewish thought.”—James Theodore Robinson, University of Chicago Divinity School
“The Kuzari is one of the most beloved classics of Jewish thought. Professor Barry Kogan’s new translation is accurate, erudite, and felicitous, and captures well the book’s philosophic verve and spiritual vision.”—Warren Zev Harvey, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Judah Halevi’s literary masterpiece has inspired Jewish readers from the twelfth century to the present. The philosophically informed, artful dialogue captures the complex encounter between Judaism and Western philosophy, on the one hand, and Judaism and other monotheistic traditions, on the other. This new translation makes Halevi’s seminal text accessible and meaningful not only to scholars of medieval Judaism but to all readers. All are invited to wrestle with the basic questions of Jewish existence: What is Judaism? Why be Jewish? How to be Jewish? The book is a brilliant scholarly achievement that will be read by generations to come.”—Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University
“The Kuzari is one of the most significant and influential Jewish treatises ever written. This eloquent and extensively annotated new English translation is highly recommended to anyone interested in Jewish thought and culture.”—Haim Kreisel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“The late Isidore Twersky once wrote of Halevi’s impact on later thinkers, ‘Judah Halevi, Nahmanides, and the Maharal constitute a special strand of Jewish thought—threefold, yet unified.’ This translation is also the long-awaited work of three prominent scholars of Jewish philosophy, the late Lawrence Berman, Barry Kogan, and Daniel J. Lasker, who together have created a work ‘threefold, yet unified.’”—Menachem Kellner, University of Haifa
“The Kuzari is one of the most beloved classics of Jewish thought. Professor Barry Kogan’s new translation is accurate, erudite, and felicitous, and captures well the book’s philosophic verve and spiritual vision.”—Warren Zev Harvey, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Judah Halevi’s literary masterpiece has inspired Jewish readers from the twelfth century to the present. The philosophically informed, artful dialogue captures the complex encounter between Judaism and Western philosophy, on the one hand, and Judaism and other monotheistic traditions, on the other. This new translation makes Halevi’s seminal text accessible and meaningful not only to scholars of medieval Judaism but to all readers. All are invited to wrestle with the basic questions of Jewish existence: What is Judaism? Why be Jewish? How to be Jewish? The book is a brilliant scholarly achievement that will be read by generations to come.”—Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University
“The Kuzari is one of the most significant and influential Jewish treatises ever written. This eloquent and extensively annotated new English translation is highly recommended to anyone interested in Jewish thought and culture.”—Haim Kreisel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“The late Isidore Twersky once wrote of Halevi’s impact on later thinkers, ‘Judah Halevi, Nahmanides, and the Maharal constitute a special strand of Jewish thought—threefold, yet unified.’ This translation is also the long-awaited work of three prominent scholars of Jewish philosophy, the late Lawrence Berman, Barry Kogan, and Daniel J. Lasker, who together have created a work ‘threefold, yet unified.’”—Menachem Kellner, University of Haifa
Notă biografică
Judah ben Samuel Halevi (ca. 1075–1141) was a poet of the golden age of Spanish Jewry and one of the most important medieval Jewish figures. Barry S. Kogan is the Clarence and Robert Efroymson Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Jewish Religious Thought at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion.