The Dual Truth, Volumes I & II (Paperback). This item is unavailable.The Dual Truth, Volumes I & II (Paperback)

Paperback. This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to 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 their philosophies is the attempt to reconcile the Jewish belief in revelation with Western culture, Western philosophy, and the conclusions of scientific research. Among these attempts is Luzzattos dual truth approach.The Dual Truth is the sequel to the Ephraim Chamiels previous book The Middle Way, which focused on the challenges faced by members of the Middle Trend in nineteenth-century Jewish thought. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…