Daniel J. Lasker
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Daniel Judah Lasker is an American-born Israeli scholar of Jewish philosophy. As of 2017, he is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Jewish thought at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Biography Born on April 5, 1949, in Flint, Michigan, United States, to Arnold and Miriam Lasker, he grew up in Orange, New Jersey, where his father served as a congregational Rabbi. As a teenager he was active in USY and served as chapter head and on the regional board. He received his B.A., M.A. and PhD from Brandeis University, all in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, he also was a visiting research student at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His dissertation was advised by Alexander Altmann and is titled "Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages".
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Published Works
- Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction (2007) (84)
- Jewish-Christian Polemics at the Turning Point: Jewish Evidence from the Twelfth Century (1996) (40)
- Proselyte Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Thought of Judah Halevi (1990) (34)
- The Jewish Critique of Christianity under Islam in the Middle Ages (1990) (31)
- The impact of the Crusades on the Jewish-Christian debate (1999) (30)
- Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas (1998) (20)
- From Judah Hadassi to Elijah Bashyatchi: Studies in Late Medieval Karaite Philosophy (2008) (10)
- Karaism in Twelfth-Century Spain (1992) (10)
- The Refutation of the Christian Principles (1992) (9)
- Interpreting Maimonides: Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy (1992) (9)
- Averroistic Trends in Jewish-Christian Polemics in the Late Middle Ages (1980) (8)
- Kabbalah, halakhah, and modern medicine: the case of artificial insemination. (1988) (7)
- Iberian Jewish Literature. Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe (2011) (5)
- The Jewish Critique of Christianity: In Search of a New Narrative (2011) (5)
- Eastern European Karaite Attitudes towards Modern Science (2010) (4)
- Judah Halevi and Karaism (2008) (4)
- Alienated Minority: The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe (1994) (4)
- The Polemic of Nestor the Priest, Qiṣṣat Mujādalat al-Usquf and Sefer Nestor Ha-Komer: Introduction, Annotated Translations, and Commentary@@@The Polemic of Nestor the Priest, Qissat Mujadalat al-Usquf and Sefer Nestor Ha-Komer: Introduction, Annotated Translations, and Commentary (1999) (4)
- The moral proverbs of Santob de Carrión: Jewish wisdom in Christian Spain (1989) (4)
- Maimonides on Human Perfection (1993) (4)
- The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus: Profayt Duran and Jewish Identity in Late Medieval Iberia (2016) (4)
- Imagination and Intellect in the Medieval Jewish Philosophical Polemics against Christianity (2006) (3)
- The Polemic of Nestor the Priest: Qissat Mujadalat al-Usquf and Sefer Nestor Ha-Komer (2001) (3)
- Popular Polemics and Philosophical Truth in the Medieval Jewish Critique of Christianity (1999) (3)
- Karaism and Christian Hebraism: A New Document* (2006) (3)
- Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise : Reflections of the medieval Jewish–Christian debate in the Theological-Political Treatise and the Epistles (2010) (3)
- A Medieval Karaite Pedagogical Grammar of Hebrew: A Critical Edition and English translation of Kitāb al-̔Uqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-̔Ibrāniyya (2014) (3)
- Jewish Anti-Christian Polemics in the Early Modern Period : Change or Continuity ? (2006) (2)
- The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ̔Eli the Karaite on the Abraham Narratives (Genesis 11:10-25:18) (2012) (2)
- Joseph ben Nathan’s Sefer Yosef ha-Mekanné and the Medieval Jewish Critique of Christianity (2015) (2)
- Perspectives on maimonides: Philosophical and historical studies (1993) (2)
- The Rendering of Bird Names in Early Judeo-Arabic Biblical Translations (2010) (2)
- Jewish Knowledge of Christianity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (2012) (2)
- Reflection: The Holocaust as Retributive Justice (2012) (2)
- Karaism and the Jewish-Christian Debate (2008) (2)
- Controversy and Collegiality: A Look at Provence (2016) (1)
- THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SELF-IMAGE OF CONTEMPORARY KARAITES (2002) (1)
- David Berger. Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue: Essays in Jewish-Christian Relations (2011) (1)
- The Theory of Compensation ('Iwad) in Rabbanite and Karaite Thought: Animal Sacrifices, Ritual Slaughter and Circumcision (2004) (1)
- The Tombstones of the Cemetery of the Karaite Jews in Çufut‐Qal’eh (the Crimea) [in Hebrew]; The Karaites of Galicia. An Ethnoreligious Minority among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772–1945 (2010) (1)
- Latin into Hebrew and the Medieval Jewish-Christian Debate (2013) (1)
- Karaite Attitudes towards Religion and Science (2008) (1)
- 5. Jewish Anti-Christian Polemics in Light of Mass Conversion to Christianity (2018) (1)
- The Canon of Medieval Jewish Philosophy: A Response to Dov Schwartz (2003) (1)
- The importance of manuscripts for the study of Early Modern Eastern European Karaism (2014) (1)
- Aaron ben Elijah (2008) (1)
- Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures: Medieval Karaism and Science (2012) (1)
- Maimonides and the Karaites: From Critic to Cultural Hero (2007) (1)
- The Jewish Prayer for Rain in Babylonia (1984) (1)
- Karaism and Christianity: An Evolving Relationship (2011) (1)
- BYZANTINE KARAITE THOUGHT (2003) (1)
- Jerusalem in Later Karaite Thought (2008) (0)
- The Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages: A Critical Edition of the "Niẓẓaḥon Vetus". David Berger (1981) (0)
- Chazan's "Daggers of Faith" (1991) (0)
- The Jewish—Christian Controversy from the Earliest Times to 1789 (1997) (0)
- Silman's "Thinker and Seer" (1988) (0)
- Commentary on the Kuzari: Heshek Shelomoh by R. Shelomoh Ben Yehuda of Lunel (2010) (0)
- Karaite Philosophy in the Classical Period (2008) (0)
- 11.12.08, Outhwaite and Bhayro, eds., From a Sacred Source (2011) (0)
- Judah Hadassi’s Eshkol ha-kofer, Preliminary Acrostics and Alphabets 1–100—Hebrew Edition and English Translation (2018) (0)
- Two New Invaluable Research Tools: Catalogues of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican and Parma Libraries (2011) (0)
- Lutski, Simḥah Isaac (2019) (0)
- Southern Racism and Reality: A Case Study (2012) (0)
- The Book of Theodicy: Translation and Commentary on the Book of Job (review) (1988) (0)
- Chapter 8. The Impact of Interreligious Polemic on Medieval Philosophy (2012) (0)
- The Karaite Reception of Gersonides (2020) (0)
- Mary in Jewish Tradition (2018) (0)
- Karaism and Christian Hebraism: (2008) (0)
- The date of the death of Jesus: Further reflections (2004) (0)
- Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period (2006) (0)
- 11.05.08, Harkins, Transforming Relations (2011) (0)
- Love of God and Knowledge of God in Maimonides’ Philosophy (2006) (0)
- The Jewish Prayer for Rain in the Post-Talmudic Diaspora (1984) (0)
- Moses Maimonides.Oliver Leaman (1992) (0)
- The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 CE (2020) (0)
- WESTERN RELIGIOUS HISTORY (1981) (0)
- Mission, Conversion, and Polemic—The Revisionist View (2010) (0)
- The Study of Medieval Literature, Philosophy and Science Moritz Steinschneider and Karaite Studies (2011) (0)
- Book notes (1960) (0)
- Stroumsa's Edition of Al-Muqammiṣ's "ʿIshrūn Maqālah" (1991) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW NOTES IN WAKE OF THE MEDIEVAL JEWISH-CHRISTIAN POLEMIC (2014) (0)
- Aaron ben Joseph (2008) (0)
- Review of Nicholas de Lange, ed., Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World (2003) (0)
- Karaites in Spain (2008) (0)
- Specialists or generalists? The Medical Outcomes Study. (1992) (0)
- Converts, Heretics, and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider. James A. Diamond (2009) (0)
- Christoph Ochs. Matthaeus Adversus Christianos. The Use of the Gospel of Matthew in Jewish Polemics Against the Divinity of Jesus (2014) (0)
- Search Scripture Well. Karaite Exegetes and the Origins of the Jewish Bible Commentary in the Islamic East (2008) (0)
- 15.02.15, Vehlow, ed., Abraham Ibn Daud's Dorot ʿOlam (2015) (0)
- The Interplay of Poetry and Exegesis in Judah Hadassi’s Eshkōl ha-kōfer (2016) (0)
- Physics and Metaphysics in Ḥasdai Crescas (review) (2001) (0)
- Afterlife and Eschatology (2008) (0)
- Research Workshop of The Israel Science Foundation and The Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought (2012) (0)
- Jeremy Cohen, The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism . Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. Pp. 301. $22.50. (1983) (0)
- Into a new century (2010) (0)
- Into the Modern Period (2008) (0)
- Ten Da'at ; 5(2) (1991) (0)
- ReviewsDóraZsom:Conversos in the Responsa of Sephardic Halakhic Authorities in the 15th Century. Piscataway, New Jersey, Gorgias Press, 2014. Hardcover, 247 pages.MikhailKizilov:The Sons of Scripture. The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century. Warsaw-Berlin, De Gruyter, 2014, xvi (2016) (0)
- 12.06.18, Cohen, Opening the Gates of Interpretation (2012) (0)
- Maimonides and Karaism-Mutual Influences (2008) (0)
- Jewish Anti-Christian Polemical Treatises in Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe (2019) (0)
- WORKSHOP: Jewish-Christian Polemics in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Period (2017) (0)
- The Philosopher-King in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Thought. Abraham Melamed , Lenn E. Goodman (2004) (0)
- Karaites and Jerusalem: (2019) (0)
- History, Religion, and Antisemitism.Gavin I. LangmuirToward a Definition of Antisemitism.Gavin I. Langmuir (1993) (0)
- Theological Encounters at a Crossroads (2019) (0)
- Jesus among the Jews: Representation and Thought (2013) (0)
- Diana Lobel. Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah Ha-Levi's Kuzari. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000. x, 277 pp. (2003) (0)
- 13.01.16, Lassner, Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam (2013) (0)
- The Necessity of the Dialogue Between Judaism and Christianity (2015) (0)
- The Prophecy of Abraham in Karaite Thought (2008) (0)
- The Relationship between Jews and Non-Jews According to Judah Halevi (2020) (0)
- Karaism and Karaite Philosophy (2008) (0)
- 11.07.27, Walfish/Kizilov, Bibliographica Karaitica (2011) (0)
- The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women (review) (2007) (0)
- The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy (review) (2012) (0)
- Ravitsky, "Crescas' Sermon on the Passover" (1992) (0)
- The Sources (2004) (0)
- Karaite Objections to Prognostication (2020) (0)
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