Background
Lasker, Daniel Judah was born on April 5, 1949 in Flint, Michigan, United States. Arrived in Israel, 1978. Son of Arnold A. and Miriam Florence (Price) Lasker.
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Thorough and meticulously researched, this study is based on a comprehensive reading of philosophical arguments drawn from all the major Jewish sources, published and unpublished, from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the dawn of the Haskalah in the late eighteenth century. The core of the book is a detailed discussion of the four doctrines of Christianity whose rationality Jews thought they could definitively refute: trinity, incarnation, transubstantiation, and virgin birth. In each case, Daniel Lasker presents a succinct history of the Christian doctrine and then proceeds to a careful examination of the Jewish efforts to demonstrate its impossibility. The main text is clearly and carefully written in a non-technical manner, with the Christian doctrines and the Jewish responses both carefully explained; the notes include long quotations, in Hebrew and Arabic as well as in English, from sources that are not readily available in English. At the time of its original publication in 1977 it was regarded as a major contribution to a relatively neglected area of medieval Jewish intellectual history; the new, wideranging Introduction prepared for this paperback edition, which surveys and summarizes subsequent scholarship, re-establishes its position as a major work. (PRINT ON DEMAND)
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Lasker, Daniel Judah was born on April 5, 1949 in Flint, Michigan, United States. Arrived in Israel, 1978. Son of Arnold A. and Miriam Florence (Price) Lasker.
Instructor Kirkland College, Clinton, New York, 1973-1975, assistant professor, 1976. Visiting assistant professor Ohio State University, Columbus, 1976-1977. Assistant professor University Texas, Austin, 1977-1978.
Lecturer Jewish thought Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, 1978-1981, senior lecturer, 1981-1988. Associate professor Ben-Gurion University, 1988-1996, full professor, since 1996, Norbert Blechner professor of Jewish Values, since 1994. Visiting associate professor University Toronto, 1983-1984.
Research fellow Annenberg Research Institute, Philadelphia, 1989-1990. Visiting professor Princeton University, 1990-1991, Yale University, 1997, University Washington, 1998.
(Thorough and meticulously researched, this study is based...)
(Thorough and meticulously researched, this study is based...)
Member Association for Jewish Studies, World Union Jewish Studies, Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies.
Married Debora Susanne Dworkin, June 19, 1973. Children: Shoshana R., Yonah S., Adina Y., Dov E., Noam Y.