Background
Breslauer, Samuel Daniel was born on April 23, 1942 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Daniel Joseph and Lynette Myrle (Goldstone) Breslauer.
( This book, first published in 1990, summarizes and eval...)
This book, first published in 1990, summarizes and evaluates the contribution of Martin Buber as a theorist of myth. Buber provides explicit guidelines for understanding and evaluating myths. He describes reality as twofold: people live either in a world of things, to which they relate as a subject controlling its objects, or in a world of self-conscious others, with whom one relates as fellow subjects. Human beings require both types of reality, but also a means of moving from one to the other. Buber understands myths as one such means by which people pass from I-It reality to I-You meeting. In studying myths, he focuses on the myths in the traditions he knows best, but offers his advice and interpretation of mythology and scholarship about mythology generally.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1138840602/?tag=2022091-20
( This book, first published in 1990, summarizes and eval...)
This book, first published in 1990, summarizes and evaluates the contribution of Martin Buber as a theorist of myth. Buber provides explicit guidelines for understanding and evaluating myths. He describes reality as twofold: people live either in a world of things, to which they relate as a subject controlling its objects, or in a world of self-conscious others, with whom one relates as fellow subjects. Human beings require both types of reality, but also a means of moving from one to the other. Buber understands myths as one such means by which people pass from I-It reality to I-You meeting. In studying myths, he focuses on the myths in the traditions he knows best, but offers his advice and interpretation of mythology and scholarship about mythology generally.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UASQ5M4/?tag=2022091-20
(In response to what he views as the most pressing problem...)
In response to what he views as the most pressing problem for the modern Jew, the conflict between modernity and tradition, Breslauer proposes a model for ethical reflection which espouses neither uncritical acceptance nor individualistic retreat into personal preference.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0889467005/?tag=2022091-20
Breslauer, Samuel Daniel was born on April 23, 1942 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Daniel Joseph and Lynette Myrle (Goldstone) Breslauer.
Bachelor in Near Eastern Studies, University California, Berkeley, 1963. B.H.L., Hebrew Union College, 1965. M.H.L., Hebrew Union College, 1969.
Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1974.
Student rabbi Ealing Synagogue, London, 1965-1966. Assistant professor philosophy/religion Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, 1971-1975. Visiting lecturer Judaic University Nebraska, Omaha, 1975-1976.
Visiting lecturer religion Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1977-1978. Assistant professor University Kansas, Lawrence, 1978-1981, professor, since 1981.
(In response to what he views as the most pressing problem...)
( This book, first published in 1990, summarizes and eval...)
( This book, first published in 1990, summarizes and eval...)
Member Midwest Jewish Studies Association (vice president 1990-1991), Association for Jewish Studies, American Academy Religion.
Married Frances Pamela Gurian, June 23, 1968. Children: Don Howard, Tamar Beth.
