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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Auteur principal: Lebens, Samuel 1983- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Cambridge Univ. Press 2023
Dans: 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.
ISSN:1469-901X
Contient:Enthalten in: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412521000470