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SUMMARY:Revisiting early Jewish-Christian relations - Daniel H. Weiss (Jew
 ish Studies)
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DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 21st February\, our speaker at the lunch-time Human
 ities Seminar will be Dr Daniel H. Weiss. His subject is Revisiting Early 
 Jewish-Christian Relations.\n\nThe topic is one on which Daniel is deeply 
 expert. In his book Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Vi
 olence\, to be published by Cambridge University Press in April 2023\, Dan
 iel provides new accounts of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Men
 delssohn\, Hermann Cohen\, Franz Rosenzweig\, and Walter Benjamin – in l
 ight of classical rabbinic accounts of God’s sovereignty\, divine and hu
 man violence\, and the embodied human being as the image of God. Leora Bat
 nizky\, Perelman Professor of Religion at Princeton\, has written of Danie
 l’s argument that “… a commitment to divine sovereignty does not pro
 duce but rather mitigates human violence. Weiss offers new and compelling 
 readings of a number of seminal modern Jewish philosophers\, while also se
 tting forth a provocatively fruitful vision of modern Jewish philosophy as
  not merely the product of modern Europe but rather as the rightful inheri
 tor of classical Jewish thought. Anyone interested in Judaism\, modern phi
 losophy and indeed the relationship between religion and politics will hav
 e much to gain from this timely and important book.”\n
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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