Maimonides Centre
for Advanced Studies

The general theme of the lecture series in 2018 will be “Reason and Revelation in Jewish Tradition.” The lectures will introduce Jewish thought to the interested public and expose the relationship between reason and revelation in specific Jewish writings. They will revolve around the following questions: under which...

Touch can serve as a “reality check“ that awakens an individual from her slumber. We pinch ourselves to confirm we are not dreaming. We slap a comrade across the cheek to bring him to his senses. In everyday speech, the sceptic is often presented as a “Doubting Thomas” with the compulsion to touch what others accept on...

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The conference focuses on the different trends and sceptical attitudes Maimonideanism took in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by examining various approaches to major religious topics such as the nature of the Torah, the commandments, the Hebrew language, the people of Israel, and...