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Shlomo Pines
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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of General and Jewish Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1952–77. Author of Scholasticism after Thomas Aquinas and the Teachings of Hasdai Crescas and his Predecessors; translator of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed.

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Jerusalem: Western Wall, Temple Mount
Judaism, monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews. Judaism is characterized by a belief in one transcendent God who revealed himself to Abraham, Moses, and the Hebrew prophets and by a religious life in accordance with Scriptures and rabbinic traditions. Judaism is the complex…
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