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Wrestling With an Angel
Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein by Hilary Putnam Indiana University Press, 136 pages, $19.95 A funny thing happened to Hilary Putnam on the...
Talmudic Jesus
Jesus in the Talmud by peter schäfer princeton university press, 232 pages, $24.95 Rabbinic literature is surprisingly silent on Christianity—but Jesus makes a cameo appearance in the Talmud, and...
The Life of the World
Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life by Jon D. Levenson Yale University Press, 304 pages, $40 In most of the mythology...
What Is Ancient Philosophy?
According to Pierre Hadot, a prominent historian of ancient thought and professor emeritus at the CollËge de France, philosophy today—specialized, professional, and detached from life—is but a shadow of...
