Is God Eternal? Revisiting Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig on Reason, Revelation, and the Name of God
This essay calls for a reassessment of one of the best-known episodes in modern Jewish thought: the debate between Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) about how to translate the name of God. Ostensibly writing to celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of Mendelssohn'...
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Modern theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-91 |
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Mendelssohn, Moses 1729-1786
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