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The
Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish
Thought
The
Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish
Thought, established in 1999, is
dedicated to the research and teaching
of the primary texts in Jewish thought
from the Second Temple period till the
present. The emphasis of the department
is on an in-depth textual study of these
texts in light of the
intellectual-cultural milieu in which
they were written. The department offers
B.A., M.A. (either with thesis or
without) and Ph.D degrees. Six full-time
(as well as several part-time) faculty
members teach in the department. They
rank among the world's leading scholars
in the field. Affiliated with the
department is the Goldstein-Goren
International Center for Jewish Thought,
which sponsors a host of activities and
offers Ph.D. scholarships and
post-doctoral fellowships to study in
the department.
Areas of Study:
Halakhic and Midrashic Thought
The
literature of the religious sects in the
period of the Second Temple; halakhic
and aggadic thought in the Talmud and in
classical midrash; medieval and modern
halakhic thought.; the development of
the liturgy; halakhah and social issues
and more.
Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Medieval
Jewish philosophy from R. Saadiah Gaon
to Spinoza: Jewish Neo-platonism; R.
Judah Halevi; Maimonides; Jewish
Aristotelianism and its opponents;
Karaite thought; medieval Jewish
polemical literature; medieval Jewish
philosophical exegesis of the Bible;
medieval philosophical ethical
literature and more.
Jewish
Mysticism
Mysticism
in classical rabbinic literature;
Heikhalot literature and the Book of
Creation; mystical literature of Hasidei
Ashkenaz; the Zohar; the kabbalistic
literature of Provence and Spain;
Lurianic Kabbalah and its influence;
Sabbatianism and its aftermath;
Hasidism; kabbalah in North Africa and
the Near East; the messianic idea in
Jewish mysticism; contemporary Jewish
mysticism and more.
Modern
Jewish Thought
Jewish
thought from Moses Mendelssohn and the
German Enlightenment till the present:
Herman Cohen; Martin Buber; Franz
Rosenzweig; Emmanuel Levinas; the
ideological foundations of the Science
of Judaism; modern Jewish religious
movements; Zionistic ideology and its
opponents; Jewish social thought;
Holocaust theology
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