First published in 1975 and unrivalled in its treatment of the subject, Louis Jacobs examines those responsa in which theology is considered and highlights the changes that have occurred in the theological principles affecting rabbis' attitudes.
FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand NewResponsa are replies given byprominent rabbinic authorities to questions put to them by other scholars,asking for rulings on specific issues, generally of a practical nature. Theresponsa literature is thus a repository of the learning and sound sense ofsome of the greatest rabbinic authorities over a period of more than a thousandyears down to the present, and relates to all the countries where Jews havelived. Although most of the emphasis in the responsa literature is undoubtedlyon practice, nearly all the great compilations of responsa also containdiscussions of a theological nature since changing conditions posed problemsfor belief as well as practice.In this volume, first published in1975 and unrivalled in its treatment of the subject, Louis Jacobs examinesthose responsa in which theology is considered and highlights the changes thathave occurred in the theological principles affecting the rabbis' attitudes tosuch questions as life after death, reward and punishment, and the problem ofsuffering.
Louis Jacobs, founding rabbi of the New London Synagogue, was a renowned scholar with an international reputation as a lecturer. He was the author of The Jewish Religion: A Companion (1995) and of many other distinguished books, several of them published by the Littman Library, including Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1999), Hasidic Prayer (paperback 1993), and Theology in the Responsa (paperback 2005), as well as an edition and translation of Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein's Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good (1995). He died in 2006.
PrefaceThe Goanic Period (to 1050)The Eleventh Century
Gershomof Mainz • Rashi and his school • TosafistsThe Twelfth Century
JosephIbn Migash • Joseph Ibn Plat • Abraham b. Isaac of Narbonne • Maimonides• Abraham Ibn David of PosquièreThe ThirteenthCentury
Nahmanides• Abraham Maimoni • Meir b. Baruch of Rothenburg • Isaac b. Moses of Vienna andhis son • Solomon Ibn AdretThe Fourteenth Century
Asherb. Jehiel • Isaac b. Sheshet PerfetThe Fifteenth Century
Simeonb. Zemah Duran • Solomon b. Simeon Duran • Jacob Weil •Israel Isserlein •Elijah MizrahiThe Sixteenth Century
DavidIbn Abi Zimra • Moses Alashkar •Benjamin Zeev of Arta • Samuel di Medina •Solomon Luria • Moses Isserles • Levi Ibn Habib • Menahem Aazariah da FanoThe Seventeenth Century
JosephTrani • Joel Sirkes • Meir of Lublin • Leon da Modena • Jair Hayyim Bacharach •Zevi AshkenaziThe Eighteenth Century
JacobEmden • Ezekiel Landau • Jseph Ergas • Meir Eisenstadt • Jacob Reischer •Samson Morpurgo • Jacob Popers • Judah Ayash • Aryeh Laib BreslauThe NineteenthCentury
EleazarFleckeles • Hayyim Kittsee • Moses Sofer • Abraham Samuel Benjamin Wolf Sofer •Simhah Bunem Sofer • Samuel Ehrenfeld • Moses Schick • Hayyim Halberstam • JoelUngar • Jacob Ettlinger • Zevi Hirsch Chajes • Joseph Saul Nathanson • NaphtaliZevi Judah Berlin • Jacob Saul Elyashar • Joseph Hayyim of Baghdad • JacobTennenbaum • Abraham Anakawa • Hayyim Sofer • Marcus Horowitz • AbrahamBornstein • Judah Aszod • Abraham Palaggi • Solomon KlugerThe Twentieth Century
Hayyim Eleazar Spira • HayyimIsaac Jeruchem • Judah Grünwald • Joseph Rozin • David Hoffman • Amram Grünwald• Menahem Manish Babad • Abraham Menahem Steinberg • Hayyim Mordecai Roller •Judah Laib Zirelson •Mordecai Joseph Breisch • Jehiel Jacob Weinberg • EliezerWaldenberg • Isaac Jacob Weiss • Moses Feinstein • Ben Zion Uziel • ZeviEzekiel Michaelson • Abraham Isaac KookSummaryand ConclusionsAppendix I: Saul Berlin and the 'Besamim Rosh'
Appendix II: Isaac Lampronti's 'Pahad Yitzhak'
Bibliography
Index
Responsa are replies given byprominent rabbinic authorities to questions put to them by other scholars,asking for rulings on specific issues, generally of a practical nature. Theresponsa literature is thus a repository of the learning and sound sense ofsome of the greatest rabbinic authorities over a period of more than a thousandyears down to the present, and relates to all the countries where Jews havelived. Although most of the emphasis in the responsa literature is undoubtedlyon practice, nearly all the great compilations of responsa also containdiscussions of a theological nature since changing conditions posed problemsfor belief as well as practice. In this volume, first published in1975 and unrivalled in its treatment of the subject, Louis Jacobs examinesthose responsa in which theology is considered and highlights the changes thathave occurred in the theological principles affecting the rabbis' attitudes tosuch questions as life after death, reward and punishment, and the problem ofsuffering.
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