Menachem Kellner
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Menachem Kellner is an American-Israeli academic and Jewish scholar of medieval Jewish philosophy with a particular focus on the philosophy of Maimonides. He is a retired Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa and is the founding chair of the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Shalem College in Jerusalem. He has taught courses in philosophy, religious studies, medieval and modern Jewish philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, the College of William & Mary, the University of Virginia, and the University of Haifa. He is probably best known for his book Must A Jew Believe Anything?, which was a Koret Jewish Book Award finalist.
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- Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism (2006) (36)
- Must a Jew Believe Anything? (1999) (33)
- Maimonides and Gersonides on Mosaic Prophecy (1977) (27)
- Gersonides, Providence, and the Rabbinic Tradition (1974) (26)
- Gersonides on the Song of Songs and the Nature of Science (1995) (23)
- Gersonides on Imitatio Dei and the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge (1995) (20)
- Maimonides on Human Perfection (1990) (18)
- Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People (1991) (17)
- Maimonides on the "decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority (1996) (17)
- Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought: From Maimonides to Abravanel (1986) (13)
- On the status of the astronomy and physics in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and Guide of the Perplexed: a chapter in the history of science (1991) (11)
- The pursuit of the ideal : Jewish writings of Steven Schwarzschild (1990) (10)
- Maimonides on the Science of the Mishneh Torah: Provisional or Permanent? (1993) (8)
- Israelis and the Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating Its Future (2000) (8)
- Democracy and Civil Disobedience (1975) (6)
- Freedom and Moral Responsibility: General and Jewish Perspectives (1997) (6)
- Torah in the Observatory (2019) (5)
- Torah in the Observatory: Gersonides, Maimonides, Song of Songs (2010) (3)
- Is Maimonides’ Ideal Person Austerely Rationalist? (2002) (3)
- A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages (1989) (3)
- MESSIANIC POSTURES IN ISRAEL TODAY (1986) (2)
- Decoding the Rabbis: A Thirteenth-Century Commentary on the Aggadah. Marc Saperstein (1982) (2)
- “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau”: Isaac Abravanel between Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides (2012) (2)
- Science in the Bet Midrash: Studies in Maimonides (2009) (2)
- Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics (2004) (2)
- Reading rambam: Approaches to the interpretation of Maimonides (1991) (2)
- Well, Can There Be Jewish Ethics or Not? (1996) (1)
- Maimonides's Thirteen Principles and the Structure of the Guide of the Perplexed (2008) (1)
- R. Isaac Abravanel on the Principles of Judaism (1977) (1)
- Maimonides the Universalist (2020) (1)
- Science in the Bet Midrash (2019) (1)
- Rabbi Isaac Abravanel on Maimonides'Principles of Faith (1980) (1)
- JEWS AND THEIR MESSIAHS (2013) (1)
- Can Orthodoxy Share the Public Square (1999) (1)
- Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy (1990) (1)
- And Yet, the Texts Remain (2014) (1)
- Jewish Dogmatics after the Spanish Expulsion: Rabbis Isaac Abravanel and Joseph Ya'beṣ on Belief in Creation as an Article of Faith (1982) (1)
- Levi ben Gershom, Commentary on Song of Songs (1999) (1)
- Maimonides on the "Normality" of Hebrew (2004) (1)
- Lenn E. Goodman, Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age (2000) (1)
- Maimonides’ Conception of the Ultimate Meaning of Life: Human Perfection. A Further Contribution to URAM Maimonides Studies (1991) (1)
- Heresy and the Nature of Faith in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (1987) (1)
- Could Maimonides Get into Rambam's Heaven? (1999) (1)
- Does Judaism Have Anything to Say About Democracy? Not Yet! (2019) (0)
- Ehud Benor. Worship of the Heart: A Study in Maimonides' Philosophy of Religion . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. ix, 262 pp. (1997) (0)
- Maimonides on Holiness (2018) (0)
- From Moses to Moses (2010) (0)
- Should Government Legislate Halakhah (1975) (0)
- To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility (review) (2009) (0)
- Mishneh Torah’s Structure and its Meaning: A Response to Prof. Lawrence Kaplan (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Moshe Halbertal. Maimonides: Life and Thought . Trans. Joel Linsider. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 400 pp. (2014) (0)
- Resting Falsehood and Protecting Integrity (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Menachem Kellner – Who is the Person Whom Rambam Says Can be ‘Consecrated as the Holy of Holies’? (2021) (0)
- Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought (2019) (0)
- Maimonides’ Disputed Legacy (2009) (0)
- Divine Providence and Free Will (2016) (0)
- Ritual Purity and Impurity (2006) (0)
- The Conception of the Torah as a Deductive Science in Medieval Jewish Thought (1987) (0)
- Maimonides' Empire of Light: Popular Enlightenment in an Age of Belief (review) (2012) (0)
- Review of Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East (2014) (0)
- Each Generation and Its Maimonides: (2019) (0)
- Moses Maimonides, Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah “Tractate Sanhedrin,” ed. and trans. Fred Rosner. New York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1981. Pp. xix, 215. $14.95. (1983) (0)
- Each Generation and Its Maimonides: The Maimonides of Rabbi Aharon Kotler (2019) (0)
- MAIMONIDES' PRINCIPLES OF FAITH (0)
- What, Not Who, Is a Jew: Halevi–Maimonides in Those Days, Rabbi Aviner and Rabbi Kafih in Our Day (2019) (0)
- Monotheism as a Continuing Ethical Challenge to Jews (2011) (0)
- Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Maimonides (2019) (0)
- Rabbi Elhanan Wasserman on Maimonides, and Maimonides on ‘Reb Elhanan’ (2019) (0)
- We Are Not Alone (2021) (0)
- Alternatives in Jewish Bioethics (2004) (0)
- Gersonides on God’s Knowledge (1978) (0)
- “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau”: Isaac Abravanel between Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides (2012) (0)
- Maimonides’ “True Religion”: For Jews or All Humanity? (2015) (0)
- What, Not Who, Is a Jew: (2019) (0)
- Reasons for the Commandments as Contemplative Practice in Maimonides (2013) (0)
- Maimonides and St Thomas Aquinas on the Limits of Reason (1999) (0)
- Maimonides, Crescas, and Abravanel on Exod. 20:2. A Medieval Jewish Exegetical Dispute (1979) (0)
- Rabbi Shimon ben Zemah Duran on the Principles of Judaism: "Ohev Mishpat," Chapters VIII and IX (1981) (0)
- POLITICS AND PERFECTION: GERSONIDES VS. MAIMONIDES (2016) (0)
- Will You Come to Our Intermarriage (1975) (0)
- Essays on ancient and modern Judaism (1996) (0)
- Pursuit of the Ideal, The (1990) (0)
- The Place of Ethics in Medieval Jewish Philosophy—The Case of Saadia Gaon (2012) (0)
- Introduction to the Special Issue of Jewish History marking the 500th Anniversary of Isaac Abravanel’s death (2009) (0)
- Converts, Heretics, and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider (review) (2009) (0)
- Maimonides on the Status of Judaism (2021) (0)
- Israelis and the Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating its Future (review) (2012) (0)
- Daniel Boyarin and the Herd of Independent Minds (2017) (0)
- Book Review:Modern Jewish Morality: A Bibliographical Survey S. Daniel Breslauer (1987) (0)
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