Abraham Isaac Kook

R. Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Palestine before the creation of the state of the Israel and an immensely influential figure in religious Zionism. Th...

R. Herzog (1888–1959) was the first Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel when the state of Israel was established in 1948. R. Herzog therefore had to deal with Israel’s first war, its W...

R. Waldenberg (1915–2006) was a prominent halakhic authority who produced one of the first halakhic treatises on war after the establishment of the state of Israel. Like R. Herzog,...

This chapter shows that the primary source for Isaac’s eschatology is John the Solitary’s depiction of the life of the future world. According to John, transformation in the future...

Jewish and early Christian authors discussed Abraham in numerous and diverse ways, adapting his Old Testament narratives and using Abrahamic imagery in their works. However, while ...

Albo’s unique conception of choice can be uncovered in his individual exegetical discussions throughout Sefer ha-‘Iqqarim. In his homiletical approach to the enigmatic narrative of...

This chapter considers the theological milieu that informs Isaac’s protological narrative, which in turn, informs his eschatology. Isaac’s protology is influenced by the infantile ...

The Cambridge polymath Isaac Barrow (1630–77) gained recognition as a theologian, classicist and mathematician. This one-volume collection of his mathematical writings, dutifully e...