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Judaism & Jewish Philosophy: A Selected Bibliography
Patrick S. O’Donnell
Department of Philosophy
Santa Barbara City College (2009)
Abelson, Joshua. Jewish Mysticism: An Introduction to the Kabbalah. New York: Sepher- Hermons Press, 1981.
Abrabanel, Judah (Ebreo, Leone) (F. Friedeberg-Seeley and Jean H. Barnes, tr.). The Philosophy of Love. London: Soncino Press, 1937.
Abravanel, Issac (Menachem Marc Kellner, tr.). Principles of Faith(Rosh Amanah). Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1982.
Abrams, Judith Z. Learn Talmud: How to Use the Talmud(The Steinsaltz Edition). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1995.
Abrams, Judith Z. The Women of the Talmud. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1995.
Abramson, Glenda, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1989.
Adler, Rachel. Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1998.
Agus, Jacob B. Banner of Jerusalem: The Life, Times, and Thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kuk. New York: Bloch, 1946.
Akenson, Donald Harman. Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and theTalmuds. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998.
Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Narrative. New York: Basic Books, 1981.
Anderson, G.W. The History and Religion of Israel. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Angel, Mar, ed. Exploring the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Hoboken, NJ: Katv Publ., 1997.
Antonelli, Judith S. In the Image of God: A Feminist Commentary on the Torah. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1997.
Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Viking, 1963.
Arendt, Hannah (Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman, eds.). The Jewish Writings. New York: Schocken, 2007.
Arkush, Allan. Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.
Astren, Fred. Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004.
Atterton, Peter, Matthew Calarco and Maurice Friedman, eds. Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2004.
Avineri, Shlomo. The Making of Modern Zionism. New York: Basic Books, 1981.
Babylonian Talmud (I. Epstein, tr.). London: Soncino Press, 1935-48.
Baer, Yitzhak. A History of Jews in Christian Spain, 2 Vols. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1961-66.
Barr, James. The Semantics of Biblical Language. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961.
Baskin, Judith R., ed. Jewish Women in Historical Perspective. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1999.
Batnizky, Leora. Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Batnizky, Leora. Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Benjamin, Walter (H. Zohn, tr.). Illuminations. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1955.
Benjamin, Walter (Gary Smith and André Lefèvre, tr.). The Correspondence of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin, 1932-1940. New York: Schocken, 1989.
Benjamin, Walter (Michael W. Jennings, ed.). Selected Writings, 4 Vols. Cambridge, UK: Harvard University Press, 1996-2003.
Bennett, Jonathan. A Study of Spinoza’s Ethics. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publ., 1984.
Benor, Ehud. Worship of the Heart: A Study of Maimonides’ Philosophy of Religion. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995.
Berman, Louis A. Vegetarianism and the Jewish Tradition. New York: Ktav, 1982.
Bernasconi, Robert and Simon Critchley, eds. Rereading Levinas. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Bernstein, Richard. Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.
Biale, David. Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Biale, Rachel. Women and Jewish Law: The Essential Texts, Their History, and Their Relevance for Today. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.
Blackman, Philip, tr. The Mishnah. New York: Judaica Press, 1964.
Borowitz, Eugene B. Exploring Jewish Ethics. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1989.
Borowitz, Eugene B. Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1991.
Boyarin, Daniel. Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Boyarin, Daniel. Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of Jewish Man. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997.
Braiterman, Zachary. (God) After Auschwitz. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Brenner, Michael. The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Bright, John. A History of Israel. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1981.
Buber, Martin. The Prophetic Faith. New York: Harper and Row, 1949.
Buber, Martin (Maurice Friedman, tr.). Hasidism and Modern Man. New York: Horizon Press, 1958.
Buber, Martin. Between Man and Man. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Buber, Martin (Walter Kauffman, tr.). I and Thou. New York: Scribner, 1970.
Buber, Martin (Nahum Glatzer, ed.). On the Bible. New York: Schocken, 1982.
Buber, Martin (Maurice Friedman, et al., tr.). Eclipse of God. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1988.
Buber, Martin. A Believing Humanism: My Testament, 1902-1965. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1990.
Buber, Martin (Nahum N. Glatzer, ed.). On Judaism. New York: Schocken, 1996.
Buber, Martin and Franz Rosenzweig. Scripture and Translation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Buhle, Paul, ed. Jews and American Popular Culture, 3 Vols. New York: Praeger, 2006.
Buijs, Joseph A., ed. Maimonides: A Collection of Critical Essays. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.
Caputo, John. The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Chanter, Tina. Time, Death and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Chilton, Bruce and Jacob Neusner. Judaism in the New Testament: Practices and Beliefs.
New York: Routledge, 1995.
Cohen, Arthur A. The Tremendum: A Theological Interpretation of the Holocaust. New York: Crossroads, 1981.
Cohen, Arthur A. and Paul Mendes-Flohr, eds. Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought. New York: Scribners, 1987.
Cohen, Hermann (S. Kaplan, tr.). Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism. New York: Ungar, 1972.
Cohen, Richard A. Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Cohen, Richard A. Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation After Levinas. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Medieval Jewish Philosophy: An Introduction. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. The Jewish Messiah. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1997.
Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Judaism. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.
Cooperman, Bernard D., ed. Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Critchley, Simon and Robert Bernasconi, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Levinas. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Curley, Edwin M. Spinoza’s Metaphysics: An Essay in Interpretation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969.
Curley, Edwin M., ed. The Collected Works of Spinoza. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1985.
Dan, Joseph. Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1986.
Dan, Joseph, ed. (Ronald C. Kiener, trans.). The Early Kabbalah. New York: Paulist Press,
1986.
Daube, David. Collaboration with Tyranny in Rabbinic Law. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Davidman, Lynn and Shelly Tennenbaum, eds. Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.
Davidowicz, Lucy S., ed. The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1967.
Davidson, Herbert. Moses Maimonides. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Davis, Colin. Levinas: An Introduction. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press,
1996.
De Dijn, Herman. Spinoza: The Way to Wisdom. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1996.
de Lange, Nicholas. An Introduction to Judaism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
de Lange, Nicholas and Miri Freud-Kandel, eds. Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Diamond, Malcolm. Martin Buber: Jewish Existentialist. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1960.
Dorff, Elliot N. and Louis E. Newman, eds. Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality:A Reader. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Dorff, Elliot N. and Louis E. Newman, eds. Contemporary Jewish Theology: A Reader. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Dorff, Elliot N. and Arthur Rosett. A Living Tree: The Roots and Growth of Jewish Law. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987.
Eichler, Barry and Jeffrey Tigay, eds. Studies in Midrash and Related Literature. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1990.
Elon, Amos. Jerusalem: City of Mirrors. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1989.
Elon, Amos. Jerusalem: Battleground of Memories. New York: Kodansha International, 1995.
Fackenheim, Emil L. God’s Presence in History: Jewish Affirmations and Philosophical Reflections. New York: New York University Press, 1970.
Fackenheim, Emil L. Encounters Between Judaism and Modern Philosophy. New York: Basic
Books, 1973.
Fackenheim, Emil L. The Jewish Return into History. New York: Schocken, 1978.
Fackenheim, Emil L. (Michael L. Morgan, ed.). The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim: A Reader. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1987.
Fackenheim, Emil L. What is Judaism? An Interpretation for the Present Age. New York: Summit, 1987.
Fackenheim, Emil L. The Jewish Bible after the Holocaust: A Re-reading. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Fackenheim, Emil L. To Mend the World: Foundations of Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Fackenheim, Emil L. Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Fackenheim, Emil L. An Epitaph for German Judaism: From Halle to Jerusalem. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Faur, José. Homo Mysticus: A Guide to Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999.
Feiner, Shmuel. The Jewish Enlightenment. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Feldman, David M. Marital Relations, Birth Control, and Abortion in Jewish Law. New York:
Schocken Books, 1974.
Feldman, Seymour. Philosophy in a Time of Crisis: Don Isaac Abravanel, Defender of the Faith. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Fine, Lawrence, ed. Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Fishbane, Michael. Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press 1985.
Fishbane, Michael. The Garments of Torah: Essays in Biblical Hermeneutics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Fishbane, Michael. The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Fishbane, Michael. Biblical Myth and Rabbinical Mythmaking. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Fishbane, Michael, ed. The Midrashic Imagination: Jewish Exegesis, Thought, and History. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Fine, Lawrence. Safed Spirituality: Rules of Mystical Piety, The Beginning of Wisdom. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1984.
Fisch, Menachem. Rational Rabbis, Science and Talmudic Culture. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Fox, Marvin. Interpreting Maimonides: Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Fraade, Steven D. From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in theMidrash Sifre to Deuteronomy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1990.
Frank, Daniel H. and Oliver Leaman, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish
Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Frank, Daniel H. and Oliver Leaman, eds. History of Jewish Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Frank, Daniel H., Oliver Leaman and Charles H. Manekin, eds. The Jewish Philosophy Reader. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Frankel, Ellen. The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman’s Commentary on the Torah. New York: Putnam, 1996.
Frankel, Jonathan, ed. Jews and Messianism in the Modern Era: Metaphor and Meaning. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Freudenthal, Gad, ed. Studies in Gersonides. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992.
Freund, Else Rahel. Franz Rosenzweig’s Philosophy of Existence: An Analysis of the Star of Redemption. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979.
Friedland, Roger and Richard Hecht. To Rule Jerusalem. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Friedman, Richard Elliott. Who Wrote the Bible? San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 1989.
Friedman, Robert. The False Prophet: Rabbi Meir Kahane—From FBI Informant to Knesset Member. London: Faber & Faber, 1990.
Galli, Barbara Ellen. Franz Rosenzweig and Jehuda Halevi. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995.
Garrett, Don, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Gibbs, Robert. Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Glatzer, Nahum N. Hillel the Elder: The Emergence of Classical Judaism. New York: Schocken, 1966.
Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1972.
Glatzer, Nahum N., ed. Faith and Knowledge: The Jew in the Medieval World. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1963.
Glatzer, Nahum N., ed. The Dimensions of Job: A Study and Selected Readings. New York:
Schocken, 1969.
Glatzer, Nahum N., ed. The Judaic Tradition: Jewish Writings from Antiquity to the Modern Age. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1987.
Glatzer, Nahum N., ed. The Schocken Passover Haggadah. New York: Schocken, 1996 ed.
Goodman, Lenn E. On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.
Goodman, Lenn E. God of Abraham. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Goodman, Lenn E., ed. Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Goodman, Martin, with Jeremy Cohen and David Sorkin, eds. The Oxford Handbook of JewishStudies. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Goodman, Philip, ed. The Purim Anthology. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 1949.
Goodman, Philip, ed. The Hanukkah Anthology. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 1976.
Goodman, Philip, ed. The Sukkot/Simhat Torah Anthology. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 1988.
Goodman, Philip, ed. The Rosh Hashanah Anthology. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 1992.
Goodman, Philip, ed. The Shavout Anthology. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 1992.
Goodman, Philip, ed. The Yom Kippur Anthology. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 1992.
Gordon, Peter Eli. Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
Graupe, Heinz M. Systematic Nature of Jewish Theology: Two Examples. Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago Publ., 1995.
Green, Arthur S., ed. Jewish Spirituality, 2 Vols. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.
Green, Kenneth Hart. Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Greenberg, Yudit Kornberg. Better Than Wine: Love, Poetry, and Prayer in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1997.
Gruber, Mayer I. Rashi’s Commentary on Psalms. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 2008 ed.
Gruen, Erich S. Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1998.
Guttman, Julius (David W. Silverman, tr.). Philosophies of Judaism: The History of Jewish Philosophy from Biblical Times to Franz Rosenweig. New York: Schocken, 1973.
ha-Levi, Judah (Hartwig Hirschfeld, tr.). The Kuzari (Kitab al Khazari): An Argument for the Faith of Israel. New York: Schocken, 1974.
ha-Levi, Judah (N. Daniel Korobkin, tr.). The Kuzari: In Defense of the Despised Faith. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aranson, 1998.
Halivni, David Weiss. Midrash, Mishnah, and Gemara: The Jewish Predilection for Justified Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Halivni, David Weiss. Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Hallamish, Moshe (Ruth Bar-Ilan and Ora Wiskind-Elper, trans.). An Introduction to the Kabbalah. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999.
Hand, Seán, ed. The Levinas Reader. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1989.
Hand, Seán, ed. Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas. Richmond: Curzon, 1996.
Handelman, Susan A. Fragments of Redemption: Jewish Thought and Literary Theory in Benjamin, Scholem and Levinas. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Hartman, David. Love and Terror in the God Encounter: The Theological Legacy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publ., 2001.
Hartman, Geoffrey H. and Sanford Budick, eds. Midrash and Literature. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986.
Hauptmann, Judith. Rereading the Rabbis: A Woman’s Voice. Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
1998.
Heinze, Andrew R. Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the 20th Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Hengel, M. (J. Bowden, tr.). Judaism and Hellenism. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1974.
Herberg, Will. Judaism and Modern Man. New York: Harper & Row, 1951.
Hershman, A., tr. The Code of Maimonides, Book Fourteen, The Book of Judges. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1949.
Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader. Philadelphia, PA:
Jewish Publication Society of America, 1997.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua. Man Is Not Alone. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1951.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua. God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism. New York: Farar, Straus & Cudahy, 1955.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man. New York: The Noonday Press, 1976.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua. Maimonides: A Biography of the Great Medieval Jewish Thinker. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
Heschel, Susannah, ed. On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader. New York: Schocken, 1983.
Holdrege, Barbara. Veda and Torah: Transcending the Textuality of Scripture. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.
Holtz, Barry W., ed. Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts. New York: Summit Books, 1984.
Horowitz, Asher and Gad Horowitz, eds. Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Horowitz, Rivka. Buber’s Way to ‘I and Thou.’ New York: Jewish Publication Society, 1988 (1978).
Hughes, Aaron W. The Art of Dialogue in Jewish Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008.
Hughes, Aaron W. The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004.
Ibn Daud, Abraham (Gerson D. Cohen, tr.). A Critical Edition with a Translation and Notes of the Book of Tradition (Sefer ha-qabbalah). Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1967.
Ibn Daud, Abraham (tr. with commentary by Norbert M. Samuelson; Gershon Weiss, ed.). The Exalted Faith. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986.
Ibn Gabirol (H.E. Wedeck, tr.). The Fountain of Life. New York: Philosophical Library. 1962.
Idel, Moshe. Kabbalah: New Perspectives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.
Idel, Moshe. Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1988.
Idel, Moshe. Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995.