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Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture , Menachem Fisch |
| Description: RATIONAL RABBIS describes an essential similarity between Athens and Jerusalem -- between the rationality underlying the enterprise of western science and that of talmudic reasoning. More than faithful curators of a static tradition, talmudic antitraditionalists saw themselves much as scientists might see themselves today -- as intellectuals whose job was to find flaws in time honored theories, and to act rationally to improve upon them. | |
| Source: Indiana University Press, 1998 | |