The Dual Truth: Studies on Nineteenth-Century Modern Religious Thought and Its Influence on Twentieth-Century Jewish Philosophy, Volumes I & II (Studies in Orthodox Judaism)

by Ephraim Chamiel

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This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars who absorbed into their thought the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands. They include halakhists such as Rabbi Ettlinger and Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish philosophers from Isaac Bernays to Yeshayau Leibowitz; and biblical commentators such as Samuel David Luzzatto and Rabbi Umberto Cassuto. Running like a thread through the analysis of the different scholars, is the attempt to conciliate Jewish orthodoxy with a wish to connect with Western culture and philosophy and to accept the conclusions of scientific research. Among these attempts is Luzzatto’s famous ‘dual truth’ approach.

This book is the sequel to the Ephraim Chamiel’s previous book The Middle Way, which focused on the challenges faced by the members of the “Middle Trend” in nineteenth-century Jewish thought.
  • ISBN13 9781618118820
  • Publish Date 7 February 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 19 February 2022
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Academic Studies Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 800
  • Language English