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Books Must a Jew Believe Anything?, Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysti, Dogma in medieval Jewish th, Maimonides on Human Perfection, Torah in the Observat | ||
Menachem Kellner | Wikipedia audio article
Menachem Kellner (born 1946) is an Israeli contemporary Jewish scholar of medieval Jewish philosophy with a particular focus on the philosophy of Maimonides. He is Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa and has taught courses in philosophy, religious studies and medieval and modern Jewish philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia and the University of Haifa.
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- Menachem Kellner Wikipedia audio article
- Must a jew believe anything r shmuly yanklowitz interviews prof menachem kellner
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He is probably best known for his book Must A Jew Believe Anything? which was a Koret Jewish Book Award finalist.
Must a jew believe anything r shmuly yanklowitz interviews prof menachem kellner
Biography
He was born in Albany, New York in 1946, and studied at the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois and Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav in Jerusalem, Israel.
He studied philosophy and Jewish philosophy at Washington University receiving a BA, Masters and a PhD. His PhD. dissertation was directed by Steven Schwarzschild. In 1980 he made aliyah to Israel.