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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Published in:Modern theology
Main Author: Sacks, Elias (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2017]
In: Modern theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-91
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mendelssohn, Moses 1729-1786 / Rosenzweig, Franz 1886-1929 / Tetragrammaton / Translation / Theology
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
FA Theology
HB Old Testament
NBC Doctrine of God
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