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Dear Friends and Colleagues, Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce that Another Way, Another Time: Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate by Meir Persoff is now available. We work with all library suppliers and wholesalers. If you are interested in ordering directly, please feel free to contact us at sa...@academicstudiespress.com and mention that you participate in Hasafran listserv. We look forward to hearing from you! Cultures in Collision and Conversation: Essays in the Intellectual History of the Jews By David Berger ISBN 978-1-936235-24-7 (cloth) $45.00 / £37.50 308 pp. Series: Judaism and Jewish Life Topic Areas: Religion; Judaism; Messianism Level: Academic Summary: In Cultures in Collision and Conversation, David Berger addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered by this issue in medieval and modern times, the impact of Christian challenges and differing philosophical orientations on Jewish interpretation of the Bible, and Messianic visions, movements, and debates from antiquity to the present. These essays include a monograph-length study of Jewish attitudes toward general culture in medieval and early modern times, analyses of the thought of Maimonides and Nahmanides, an assessment of the reactions to the most recent messianic movement in Jewish history, and reflections on the value of the academic study of Judaism. Author: David Berger (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1970) is a former President of the Association for Jewish Studies and the Ruth and I. Lewis Professor and Dean at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Cultures in Collision and Conversation Reviews: "For decades, David Berger has been profoundly enriching our knowledge of the Jewish past and present. This new collection of essays exhibits Berger at his best. The essays are wide-ranging in time and space, are rich in knowledge and citation of the sources, are meticulous and convincing in their argumentation, and show a historian with deep warmth and empathy for the peoplepast and presentabout whom he writes." Robert Chazan, S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University "Berger's wise and witty essays are at once learned and effervescent, balanced and engaged essential reading for anyone interested in the Jewish past and its (mis)uses, and a pleasure to read." Bernard Septimus, Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization, Harvard University Table of Contents: Introduction The Cultural Environment: Challenge and Response Identity, Ideology, and Faith: Some Personal Reflections on the Social, Cultural and Spiritual Value of the Academic Study of Judaism Judaism and General culture in Medieval and Early Modern Times How Did Nahmanides Propose to Resolve the Maimonidean Controversy? Miracles and the Natural Order in Nahmanides Polemic, Exegesis, Philosophy, and Science: Reflections on the Tenacity of Ashkenazic Modes of Thought Malbim's Secular Knowledge and His Relationship to the Spirit of the Haskalah The Uses of Maimonides by Twentieth-Century Jewry The Institute for Jewish Studies on its Eightieth Anniversary Interpreting the Bible 'The Wisest of All Men': Solomon's Wisdom in Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Book of Kings On the Morality of the Patriarchs in Jewish Polemic and Exegesis Yearning for Redemption Three Typological Themes in Early Jewish Messianism: Messiah son of Joseph, Rabbinic Calculations, and the Figure of Armilus Some Ironic Consequences of Maimonides' Rationalist Approach to the Messianic Age Sephardic and Ashkenazic Messianism in the Middle Ages: An Examination of the Historiographical Controversy Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus: The Impact of Zionism on Joseph Klausner's History of the Second Temple The Fragility of Religious Doctrine: Accounting for Orthodox Acquiescence in the Belief in a Second Coming Epilogue The Image of his Father: On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Death of Hadoar Author Isaiah Berger Index Cheers! Stephanie Monasky Sales and Marketing Academic Studies Press --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
