The middle way. Volume One : the emergence of modern-religious trends in nineteenth-century Judaism : responses to modernity in the philosophy of Z. H. Chajes, S. R. Hirsch and S. D. Luzzatto / editor, Asael Abelman ; translator, Jeffrey Green ; cover design by Ivan Grave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chamiel, Ephraim, Author.

Contributor:

Abelman, Asael, editor.

Green, Jeffrey, translator.

Grave, Ivan, cover designer.

Series:

Studies in Orthodox Judaism.

Studies in Orthodox Judaism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History--Modern period, 1750-.

Judaism.

Judaism--History--19th century.

Judaism--History--Medieval and early modern period.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (534 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brighton, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book in two volumes is devoted to examining the first encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture, and the first thinkers who sought to combine the Torah with science, revelation with reason, prophecy with philosophy, Jewish ethics with European culture, worldliness with sanctity, and universalism with the particular redemption of the Jews. These religious thinkers of the nineteenth century struggled with challenges of the modern age that continue to confront the modern Jews to this day. This objective work of scholarship, neither simplistic and isolationist nor destructive and arrogant, will be of interest to the modern thinker and to scholars of the history of religions. It is relevant to comparative study between Judaism and the various denominations of Christianity and other faiths that seek to find a middle way between their traditions and modernity.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Preface to the English Edition

Translator's Note

Introduction: The New Middle Way and Its Proponents

CHAPTER ONE: Bible Criticism and the Biblical Revolution

CHAPTER TWO: Religious Reform: The Reform Movement and the Historical Positivist School

CHAPTER THREE. Haskala, Wissenschaft des Judentums, and the Inclusion of Secular Studies in Education

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 14, 2015).

ISBN:

1-64469-603-7

1-61811-409-3

OCLC:

900539739