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Limmud 2015 – Do we still have reason to believe?

 

Limmud Conference, December 2015: Following short introductions by Ivor Jacobs and Ezra Margulies on the general aims of the Friends of Louis Jacobs project, Simon Eder presented, in this session, a concise and articulate analysis of Rabbi Louis Jacobs’s doctrine of liberal supernaturalism, based on a wide array of primary sources.

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  • PhD Dissertation
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Articles Following the Seminar

Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies

Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs

Halakhah and Aggadah: The Modern Conversion Controversy in Light of Louis Jacobs’s Philosophy

What is ‘Modern’ in Modern Orthodoxy?

Theology and Conversion, Converts and Theology – The Picture in Britain

Back to Zechariah Frankel and Louis Jacobs? On Integrating Academic Talmudic Scholarship into Israeli Religious Zionist Yeshivot and the Spectre of the Historical Development of the Halakhah

‘Modern’ Orthodoxy in Antiquity and the Present Day

From Jacobs to the New Materialism: Revelation in Judaism after Metaphysics

Torah as the Word of God

Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Biblical Criticism: Some Reflections on the Importance of Asking the Right Question

Orthodox Judaism in Transition – An Oxymoron?

We Have Reason to Inquire: The Life and Works of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs

Biblical Criticism and Late-Modern Orthodoxy in Israel

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