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Article: Is There a Jewish Philosophy? Rethinking Fundamentals.(Review) (book review)
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- March 22, 2001
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Is There a Jewish Philosophy? Rethinking Fundamentals, by Leon Roth. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1999. 199 pp. $21.95. ISBN 1-874774-55-2.
This book is a collection of 12 public lectures and previously published articles on Jewish philosophy written by the late Leon Roth. For those unfamiliar with Roth, he was the first professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he taught from 1928 to 1951. The selections in this book deal with classic questions like the aims of Jewish philosophy, the principle of imitatio Dei, the interpretation of Scripture, the authority of the law, and mysticism. The historical figures who receive ...