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Commandment and community :

Commandment and community : new essays in Jewish legal and political philosophy / edited by Daniel H. Frank. - Albany : State University of New York Press, �1995. - 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages). - SUNY series in Jewish philosophy . - SUNY series in Jewish philosophy. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward a Jewish philosophy of justice / Is a Jewish practical philosophy possible? / Reason in action : the "practicality" of Maimonides's Guide / Jewish tradition and national policy / Underdetermination of meaning by the Talmudic text / Nachmanides's conception of Ta�amei Mitzvot and its Maimonidean background / The attitude toward democracy in medieval Jewish philosophy / Abravanel and the Jewish republican ethos / Spinoza's challenge to the doctrine of election / Morality and war : a critique of Bleich's oracular halakha / Response to Noam Zohar / Reply to David Bleich / Lenn E. Goodman -- Oliver Leaman -- Daniel H. Frank -- Elliot N. Dorff -- Aryeh Botwinick -- Josef Stern -- Abraham Melamed -- Reuven Kimelman -- David Novak -- Noam J. Zohar -- J. David Bleich -- Noam J. Zohar.


English.

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Judaism and politics--Congresses.
Jewish law--Philosophy--Congresses.
Jewish philosophy--Congresses.
RELIGION--Judaism--Theology.
Jewish law--Philosophy.
Jewish philosophy.
Judaism and politics.
Judaism.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.


Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

BM645.P64 / C66 1995eb

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