Theology in the Responsa (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) - Hardcover
Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs examines more than a thousand years of rabbinic responsa and draws from them attitudes to basic theological principles which underlie his concern with such practical questions as life after death, reward and punishment, and the problem of suffering.
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About the Author:
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, paperback 2004), A Tree of Life (second edition 2000) and Hasidic Prayer (paperback 1993), as well as an edition and translation of Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein's Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good (1995). He died in 2006.
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- PublisherThe Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0197100228
- ISBN 13 9780197100226
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages390
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