• Jewish Kalam was an early medieval style of Jewish philosophy that evolved in response to Kalam in Islam, which in turn was a reaction against Aristotelianism...
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  • Ilm al-kalam or ilm al-lahut, often shortened to kalam, is the scholastic, speculative, or philosophical study of Islamic theology (aqida). It can also...
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    Jewish eschatology is the area of Jewish theology concerned with events that will happen in the end of days and related concepts. This includes the ingathering...
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    (Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ, romanized: māšīaḥ) is a savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer of the Jews. The concept...
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    beliefs and leadership structure. In 219 CE, the Sura Academy (from which Jewish Kalam emerged many centuries later) was founded by Abba Arika. For the next...
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    God in Judaism (redirect from Jewish God)
    Shaddai, and Shekhinah. According to the rationalistic Jewish theology articulated by the Medieval Jewish philosopher and jurist Moses Maimonides, which later...
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  • most conspicuous practitioners in the philosophical school known as Jewish Kalam. [citation needed] According to historian Salo Wittmayer Baron, at one...
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  • also refer to: Kalam cosmological argument, a cosmological argument for the existence of God rooted in the Ilm al-Kalam heritage Jewish Kalam, an early medieval...
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    Saadia Gaon (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
    linguistics, halakha, and Jewish philosophy, he was a practitioner of the philosophical school known as the "Jewish Kalam". In this capacity, his philosophical...
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    scholasticism were Islamic Ilm al-Kalām, meaning "science of discourse", and Jewish philosophy, especially Jewish Kalam. The first significant renewal of...
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    Bundahishn, a Zoroastrian encyclopedic work, and the Avot de-Rabbi Nathan, a Jewish Rabbinical text. Medieval philosophy was generally dominated by Aristotle...
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    authority in Judaism in existence today - although the Sanhedrin, the supreme Jewish religious court, would fulfill this role if it were re-established. Instead...
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  • Islamic schools and branches Non-denominational Muslims Jahm bin Safwan Jewish Kalam Kalam Karaite Judaism Mihna Punishment of the Grave Zaidiyyah, a similar...
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  • transplanted the Kalam gradually to Jewish soil, to undergo the same transformations there as among the Arabs. One of the most important early Jewish philosophers...
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    Baruch Spinoza (category 17th-century Jewish biblical scholars)
    Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. As a forerunner of the Age of Reason, Spinoza significantly influenced...
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    Jews as the chosen people (category Jewish theology)
    is written about these topics in rabbinic literature. The three largest Jewish denominations—Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism—maintain...
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    Jewish ethics is the ethics of the Jewish religion or the Jewish people. A type of normative ethics, Jewish ethics may involve issues in Jewish law as...
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    Maimonides (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
    the Jewish community in Egypt, his writings also had vociferous critics, particularly in Spain. He died in Fustat, Egypt and, according to Jewish tradition...
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    The Guide for the Perplexed (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
    number of principles and methods identified with the schools of Jewish Kalam and Islamic Kalam, including the argument for creation ex nihilo and the unity...
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    Philo (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
    romanized: Yəḏīḏyāh; c. 20 BCE – c.  50 CE), also called Philō Judæus, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt. The...
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    Tzadik (category Jewish theology)
    channel assumed central importance, combining popularization of (hands-on) Jewish mysticism with social movement for the first time. Adapting former Kabbalistic...
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  • (1892 – 31 December 1953) was an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Jewish philosopher of the 20th century. He is best known for being the mashgiach...
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  • Communist Union (Poalei Zion) Jewish ethics Jewish existentialism Jewish Kalam Jewish medical ethics Jewish philosophy Jhana Jhāna Jia Yi Jiao Yu Jiddu...
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    Gershom Scholem (category Israel Prize in Jewish studies recipients who were historians)
    academic study of the Kabbalah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Scholem is acknowledged as...
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    Solomon ibn Gabirol (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
    sʊlæjˈmæːn bɪn ˈjæħjæː bɪn dʒæbiːˈruːl]) was an 11th-century Andalusi poet and Jewish philosopher in the Neo-Platonic tradition. He published over a hundred poems...
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    Orthodox Jewish philosophy comprises the philosophical and theological teachings of Orthodox Judaism. Though Orthodox Judaism sees itself as the heir of...
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    Judah Halevi (category Jewish poets)
    يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Yahūḏa al-Lāwī; c. 1075 – 1141) was a Sephardic Jewish poet, physician and philosopher. He was born in Al-Andalus, either in Toledo...
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    Martin Buber (category Austrian Jewish theologians)
    Yiddish: מארטין בובער; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-Jewish and Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form...
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    Jacob Emden (category Exponents of Jewish law)
    from the Jewish community to possess a private synagogue. Emden was at first on friendly terms with Moses Hagis, the head of the Portuguese-Jewish community...
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    Judah Leon Abravanel (category Medieval Jewish philosophers)
    Ebreo; in Spanish: León Hebreo; in French: León l'Hebreu), was a Portuguese–Jewish philosopher, physician, and poet. His work Dialogues of Love was one of...
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