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Title A Traditional quest : essays in honour of Louis Jacobs / edited by Dan Cohn-Sherbok.

Publication Info. Sheffield, England : JSOT Press, [1991]
©1991

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages) : 1 portrait.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series, 0309-0787 ; 114
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 114.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From philosophy to religion / Jacob Neusner -- A theological response to orthodoxies / Eugene Borowitz -- Defining the uniqueness of the Holocaust / Steven T. Katz -- Leo Baeck / Albert Friedlander -- The human body and the image of God / Byron L. Sherwin -- The classical tradition in Byzantium / Nicholas de Lange -- Akkadian medicine in the Babylonian Talmud / M.J. Geller -- Psychoanalytic approaches to biblical narrative (Genesis 1-4) / Adrian Cunningham -- Saul Levi Morteira's Eulogy for Menasseh ben Israel / Marc Saperstein -- Ownership and autonomy / Jonathan Magonet -- Law in reform Judaism / Dan Cohn-Sherbok -- Moses Mendelssohn's concept of tolerance / David Patterson -- The quest for a Jewish theology and a non-fundamentalist Halakhah / Paul Morris.
Summary 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 distinguished scholars. Beginning with Jacob Neusner's essay on the transformation of the Dual Torah in the first four centuries CE, the volume ranges over a variety of topics in the field of Bible, Talmud, history and theology, mirroring the wide range of Louis Jacobs' own interests. In addition, a.
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Subject Jacobs, Louis -- Bibliographie.
Judaism.
Judaism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Jacobs, Louis.
Cohn-Sherbok, Dan.
Other Form: Print version: Traditional quest. Sheffield, England : JSOT Press, ©1991 1850752796 9781850752790 (DLC) 91230523 (OCoLC)23669996
ISBN 9780567527288 (electronic book)
056752728X (electronic book)
9781850752790
1850752796