Amen to daat: on the foundations of Jewish epistemology
I argue that the Hebrew Bible adopts a non-doxastic account of propositional faith. In coming to this conclusion, we shall discover that Biblical Hebrew has no word for belief. What ramifications might this have had for biblical and Jewish epistemology? I begin to trace the sort of epistemic norms t...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2023
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Religious studies
Année: 2023, Volume: 59, Numéro: 3, Pages: 465-478 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Saadya Gaon
B Faith B non-propositional knowledge B the Malbim B Emunah |
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Résumé: | I argue that the Hebrew Bible adopts a non-doxastic account of propositional faith. In coming to this conclusion, we shall discover that Biblical Hebrew has no word for belief. What ramifications might this have had for biblical and Jewish epistemology? I begin to trace the sort of epistemic norms that might emerge from an epistemology that approaches knowledge by thinking about faith, rather than belief. |
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ISSN: | 1469-901X |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412521000470 |