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Norbert Max Samuelson (February 15, 1936 – May 9, 2022) was an American scholar of Jewish philosophy . He was Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University , having held the Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies there. He wrote 13 books and over 200 articles, with research interests in Jewish philosophy , philosophy and religion, philosophy and science, 20th-century philosophy (with an emphasis on Alfred North Whitehead and Franz Rosenzweig ), and Jewish Aristotelians with an emphasis on Gersonides (Levi Ben Gershom) ; he also lectured at university-level conferences around the world.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
His three books-- The First Seven Days (1992), Judaism and the doctrine of creation (1994), and Revelation and the God of Israel (2004)--are to be taken as trilogy in the area of science and religion in relation to Judaism.
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Norbert Max Samuelson (born 1936) is a scholar of Jewish philosophy .He has written 13 books and over 200 articles, with research interests in Jewish philosophy , philosophy and religion, philosophy and science, 20th-century philosophy (with an emphasis on Alfred North Whitehead and Franz Rosenzweig ), history of Western philosophy, and Jewish Aristotelians (with an emphasis on Gersonides ).He also lectures at university-level conferences around the world.
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Norbert Max Samuelson (born February 15, 1936) is a scholar of Jewish philosophy .He is Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, having held the Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies there. He has written 13 books and over 200 articles, with research interests in Jewish philosophy , philosophy and religion, philosophy and science, 20th-century philosophy (with an emphasis on Alfred North Whitehead and Franz Rosenzweig ), history of Western philosophy, and Jewish Aristotelians (with an emphasis on Gersonides ). He also lectures at university-level conferences around the world.
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Scholar and professor of Jewish philosophy Norbert Max Samuelson (February 15, 1936- May 9, 2022) was a scholar of Jewish philosophy . He was Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, having held the Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies there. He wrote 13 books and over 200 articles, with research interests in Jewish philosophy , philosophy and religion, philosophy and science, 20th-century philosophy (with an emphasis on Alfred North Whitehead and Franz Rosenzweig ), history of Western philosophy, and Jewish Aristotelians (with an emphasis on Gersonides ). He also lectured at university-level conferences around the world.
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grossman chair of jewish studies at arizona state university
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american scholar of jewish philosophy
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