Table of Contents: “…The Case of Telefilm 'De Punt's' Online Discussion Forum : participatory space for societal debate or echo chamber for the polemical few? /…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Miracles and the natural order in Nahmanides -- Polemic, exegesis, philosophy, and science : reflections on the tenacity of Ashkenazic modes of thought -- Malbim's secular knowledge and his relationship to the spirit of the Haskalah -- The uses of Maimonides by twentieth-century Jewry -- The Institute for Jewish Studies on its eightieth anniversary -- Interpreting the Bible -- "The wisest of all men" : Solomon's wisdom in medieval Jewish commentaries on the Book of Kings -- On the morality of the patriarchs in Jewish polemic and exegesis -- Yearning for redemption -- Three typological themes in early Jewish Messianism : Messiah son of Joseph, rabbinic calculations, and the figure of Armilus -- Some ironic consequences of Maimonides' rationalist approach to the Messianic age -- Sephardic and Ashkenazic Messianism in the Middle Ages : an examination of the historiographical controversy -- Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus : the impact of Zionism on Joseph Klausner's history of the second temple -- The fragility of religious doctrine : accounting for orthodox acquiescence in the belief in a second coming -- Epilogue. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Polemical introduction -- Historical criticism: theory of modes -- Ethical criticism: theory of symbols -- Archetypal criticism: theory of myths -- Rhetorical criticism: theory of genres -- Tentative conclusion.…”
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