Moses Maimonides and Chaim Volozhiner

Introduction 1. The Simultaneous Genesis of Monotheism and Skepticism in Jewish Religion 2. Divine Unknowability versus Divine Non-Existence 3. Maimonides' Theorizing of the Monotheistic God 4. Maimonides' Ideal-Typological Portrait of the Judge 5. Maimonides on Prophecy 6. Avicenna: Negative Theology, Skepticism, and Mysticism 7. Rabbinic Genealogy: Rabbi Akiva as a Precursor of Maimonides' Negative Theology 8. The West's Stationary Metaphysical Moment: St Anselm's Ontological Argument 9. Reb Chaim Volozhiner as Rooted in Maimonides' Negative Theology 10. Weak Messianism as the Good: A Classical Liberal Translation of Negative Theology 11. Horizontality vs. Verticality: New Readings in the Understanding of Religion and the Organizing of Politics 12. The Case for a Negative Theological Hermeneutic of the Biblical Text 13. Maimonides' Philosophy of Prayer: The Impact of Negative Theology in Reconceiving the Nature and Role of Prayer

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Talmudic studies;monotheistic scepticism;divine unknowability;eyn Sof mysticism;ontological argument analysis;prophecy interpretation;negative theology biblical hermeneutics