Menachem Fisch

Wissenschaftliches Profil von Menachem Fisch

1. Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living, Waco TX: Baylor University Press, (forthcoming, 2023). (mit Debra Band)
2. »The Trading Zones of Interreligious Studies: A Prolegomena of Sorts to The Dialogcal Turn«, in M. Fisch, H. Schulz and S. Voght (eds.), Pathways into German Jewish Intellectual and Religious History: Studies in Conversation with Christian Wiese, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter (forthcoming, 2023).
3. »The Aqedah and the Fall: Contrasting Paradigms of Rabbinic Religiosity«, in J-P. Fortin and H. Schulz (eds.), Aqedah: The Binding of Isaac (Gen 22) as a Challenge for the Rationality of Religion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter (forthcoming, 2022).
4. »The Value of Idolatry«, in A. Goshen-Gottstein (ed.), Idolatry: A Contemporary Conversation (forthcoming), Cambridge MA: Academic Studies Press, (forthcoming, 2022).
5. »Epistemic Humility, or What Political Theory can Learn from Talmudic Judaism«, in H. Schulz, M. Fritz and R. Barth (eds), Stolz und Demut. Zur emotionalen Ambivalenz religiöser Positionierungen, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, (forthcoming, 2022).
6. »Prophecy (and its Rationality) in Talmudic Dispute«, in H. Schulz (ed.), A Mouthpiece For God: Prophecy and Reason in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, (forthcoming, 2022).
7. Dialogues of Reason: Science, Politics, Religion (The Dagmar Westberg Lectures 2020, with Responses by Julie E. Cooper, Lorraine Daston, Paul Franks, Suzanne Last Stone, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Thomas M. Schmidt, Claudia Welz, and Christian Wiese), Wuerzburg: Echter Verlag, (forthcoming, 2022).
8. The Enemy Within: Political Zionism and its Faithful Adversaries (in Hebräisch), Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2021.
9. »The Relevance of Talmudic Judaism to Modern Philosophy«, in A. Deeg, J. J. Krause, M. Mordhorst-Mayer and B. Schrӧder (eds.), Dialogische Theologie. Beitrӓge zum Gesprӓch zwischen Juden und Christen und zur Bedeutung rabbinischer Literatur, Studien zu Kirche und Israel Neue Folge, band 14, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 265-285, 2020.
10. »Talmudic Commentary and the Problem of Normative Self-Critique«, Geschichte der Philologien, 57/58, 27-43, 2020.
11. »Bossy Matrons and Forced Marriages: Talmudic Confrontationalism and its Philosophical Significance«, in: Open Philosophy, 3, 335-348, 2020.
12. »The Tragic Paradox of Political Zionism«, in: Telos, 192, Fall, 29-39. 2020.
13. »The Talmudist Enlightenment: Talmudic Judaism’s Confrontational Rational Theology«, in special issue on Contemporary Jewish Perspectives on Divine Hiddenness, Religious Protest, in: European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, 12(2), 37-63, 2020.
14. »God’s Word and the Languages of Man: The Wisdom of Solomon and the Birth of Midrash«, in G. Schreiber (ed.), Interesse am Anderen: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Religion und Rationalität. Für Heiko Schulz zum 60, Berlin und Boston: De Gruyter, 369-382, 2019.
15. »Gulliver and the Rabbis: Counterfactual Truth in Science and the Talmud«, in: Religions, 10(3), 228, 2019. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10030228
16. »Job and the Bible’s Theo-Political Divide«, in: Religions, 10(1), 33, 2019. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10010033
17. »Faith Reason and Dialogue: Science’s Great Debt to Christianity and Potential Debt to Judaism – A Response to Y. Gingras, in: Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017«, Metascience, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-019-00388-z
18. Covenant of Confrontation: A Study of Non-Submissive Religiosity in Rabbinic Literature (in Hebräisch), Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2019.
19. »Ambivalence as a Jewish Value«, Tablet Magazine, 17 September, 2017.
20. »Judaism and the Religious Value of Diversity and Dialogue: Drafting a Jewish Response to Nostra Aetate«, in S. Alkier, M. Schneider, C. Wiese (Hg.), Diversität - Differenz - Dialogoizität: Religion in Pluralen Kontexten, Berlin und Boston: de Gruyter, 375-392, 2017.
21. »Deciding by Argument versus Proving by Miracle: The Myth-History of Talmudic Judaism’s Coming of Age«, in: Toronto Journal of Theology, 33(1), 103-127, 2017.
22. Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency, University of Chicago Press: 2017.
23. Menachem, Fisch: The Rationality of Religious Dispute, edited by H. Tirosh-Samuelson & A.W. Hughes, Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers, vol.18, Leiden: Brill, 2016.
24. »Religious Self-critique in the Trusted Presence of Others«, in R. Kronnish (ed.), Voices for Interreligious Reconciliation in Israel, Paulist Press, (mit Peter Pettit), 202-213, 2015.
25. »Criticism From Within versus Criticism From Without – My Debt to Yemima« (in Hebräisch), in: Iyyun – The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 64, 160-171, 2015.
26. »Babbage's Two Lives«, in: British Journal for the History of Science, 47(1), 95–118, 2014.