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Hermann Cohen’s Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism (published in 1919) is regarded by many as the most important work in Jewish religious and philosophical thought since Maimonides’s Guide for the Perplexed. In the excerpt below, Cohen examines the pantheistic response to the problem of pain, then contrasts it against the religious response to the […]
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Moses Maimonides (1135–1204) was a rabbi, theologian, and physician, considered by many to be the greatest medieval Jewish thinker. Guide for the Perplexed addresses the conflicts between Judaism and the scientific and philosophic thought of the day, seeking to find a concord between the Old Testament, Aristotelian philosophy, and observable physical reality. In the excerpt below,
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Prologue In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the
The Creation of the World In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the