Shalom Rosenberg (1935–2023)
Autor(a) de Good and Evil in Jewish Thought
About the Author
Obras de Shalom Rosenberg
Bar Mitzva - Trece charlas sobre judaismo 1 exemplar(es)
לא בשמים היא : תורה שבעל-פה - מסורת וחידוש 1 exemplar(es)
Saadia Gaón 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Land of Israel: Jewish Perspectives (Studies in Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity) (1986) — Contribuinte — 22 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1935
- Data de falecimento
- 2023-03-08
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Argentina (birth)
Israel - Local de nascimento
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Local de falecimento
- Jerusalem, Israel
- Locais de residência
- Jerusalem, Israel
- Ocupação
- professor of philosophy
translator
educator
public intellectual
author - Relacionamentos
- Ben-Shlomo, Yosef (teacher)
- Organizações
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Membros
Resenhas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 49
- Popularidade
- #320,875
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 7
- Idiomas
- 2
The title of the book might be a little misleading. The essays cover the issue of good and evil mainly from the perspective of two main schools of thought: medieval Jewish philosophy and Kabbalistic writings. There is also a chapter about the Halachic approach to the problem and another on the implications of the Holocaust, but Rosenberg’s forte, as in other books, is in the former two areas. He covers well the approach of Rambam and his contemporaries, and then delves (perhaps in too much detail for a popular book) into the esoteric Kabbala approach. He also attempts to give a wider context of the theodicy problem by saying a few words about contemporary philosophers, such as Buber and Rosenzweig, but not convincingly enough in my opinion.
Perhaps it’s the subject matter, but it seems that the format of short essays is not well suited for such complex philosophical discussions. I was left feeling the book only skimmed the issues without giving proper explanations to any of the ideas discussed.… (mais)