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INTRODUCTION
1 Rabbinic Judaism and General Culture: Normative Discussion and Attitudes
INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE PARAMETERS
THE STUDY OF NONTORAITIC MATERIALS
LAW OF THE GENTILES: CONTINUUM OR CONTRAST?
OF FACTS AND VALUES
CONCLUDING COMMENT
2 Judaism and General Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Times
PREFATORY NOTE
THE DYNAMICS OF A DILEMMA
THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST AND THE GEONIM
MUSLIM SPAIN AND MAIMONIDES
THE GREAT STRUGGLE: PROVENCE AND NORTHERN SPAIN FROM THE LATE TWELFTH TO THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY
THE SEPHARDIM OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
ASHKENAZ
ITALIAN SYMBIOSIS
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND THE TRANSITION TO MODERN TIMES
Acknowledgments
3 Rabbinic Openness to General Culture in the Early Modern Period in Western and Central Europe
INTRODUCTION
SETTING
R. ISAAC BERNAYS
R. JACOB ETTLINGER
R. SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH
TORAH AND DEREKH EREẓ: PRACTICE
R. AZRIEL HILDESHEIMER
AFTERWORD
4 Torah and General Culture: Confluence and Conflict
INTRODUCTION
THE END OF LEARNING: THE PROBLEM IN PERSPECTIVE
THE BEAUTY OF JAPHET: CULTURE AS SUPPLEMENT
PERFUMERS AND COOKS: CULTURE AS COMPLEMENT
FOR ALL IS IN IT: SELF-SUFFICIENT TORAH
TIME’S WINGED CHARIOT: THE DILEMMA OF APPORTIONMENT
AFTER YOUR OWN EYES: THE CORRUPTION OF MORALS
THORNS AND THISTLES: THE CORROSION OF FAITH
BUT WITH A WHIMPER: THE CHILLING OF FERVOR
LOOKING BEFORE AND AFTER: EPILOGUE
GLOSSARY
CONTRIBUTORS
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