Books Written:
1.
Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1986. (paperback reprint: 2004) (http://www.littman.co.uk/cat/kellner.html)
la. Torat ha-Ikkarim ba-Philosophiah ha-Yehudit Bimei ha-Benayim.
Jerusalem: WZO/Hillel ben Hayyim Library, 1991.
2. Maimonides on Human Perfection. Atlanta: Scholars Press (Brown
Judaic Studies), 1990.
3. Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People. Albany: SUNY
Press, 1991.
3a. Maimonid O Judaizmu I Jevrejskom Narodu. Belgrade, Pismo,
2000.
4. Maimonides on the Decline of the Generations and the Nature of
Rabbinic Authority. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.
5. Must a Jew Believe Anything? London: Littman Library of Jewish
Civilization, 1999. Second edition, revised and expanded: 2006. (http://www.littman.co.uk/cat/kellner-must2.html)
6.
Maimonides' Confrontation With Mysticism. London: Littman Library
of Jewish Civilizaton, 2006. (http://www.littman.co.uk/cat/kellner-maimonides.html)
Critical
Editions:
7. Isaac Abravanel,
Rosh Amanah (Principles of Faith). Hebrew text edited, with introduction
and notes, and companion texts from Duran, Crescas and Bibago. Ramat
Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 1993.
8. Gersonides, Commentary on Song of Songs. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan
University Press, 2001.
Scholarly
Translations:
9. Principles of Faith by Isaac Abravanel (translation, introduction,
notes). London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1981. (paperback
reprint: 2004) http://www.littman.co.uk/cat/abravanel.html
10. Commentary on Song of Songs by Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides).
New Haven: Yale University Press (Yale Judaica Series), 1998. (http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300071477)
11. Book of Love
by Maimonides (Mishneh Torah, vol. 2). New Haven: Yale University
Press (Yale Judaica Series), 2004. (http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300103484)
Edited Collections:
12. Contemporary Jewish Ethics. New York: Sanhedrin Press, 1978
(second printing, 1985).
13. The Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild.
Albany: SUNY Press, 1990.
14. Human Freedom and Moral Responsibility: General and Jewish Perspectives
(College Park: University of Maryland Press, 1997) (Associate Editor;
with Charles Manekin).
Special Issues of Journals:
15.
Iyyun 50 (2001) – Special issue devoted to Leo Strauss (with
Ehud Luz).
16.
Jewish History (2004) – Special issue devoted to the Eight Hundredth
Anniversary of Maimonides' Death.
Articles:
1.
"Louis Jacobs' Doctrine of Revelation," Tradition 14
(1974): 143-147.
2.
"Gersonides, Providence, and the Rabbinic Tradition," Journal
of the American Academy of Religion 43 (1974): 673-685. [http://www.jstor.org/view/00027189/ap050032/05a00090/0]
3.
"Rabbi Isaac Bar Sheshet's Responsum Concerning the Study of Jewish
Philosophy," Tradition 15 (1975): 110-118.
4.
"Democracy and Civil Disobedience," Journal of Politics
37 (1975): 899-911 (this article appeared with a response by Sidney
Hook: "In Defense of Terminological Sobriety--A Reply to Professor
Kellner").
[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3816%28197511%2937%3A4%3C899%3ADACD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5]
[http://www.jstor.org/view/00223816/di976576/97p05456/0]
5. "Gersonides
and His Cultured Despisers: Arama and Abravanel," Journal of
Medieval and Renaissance Studies 6 (1976): 269-296.
6.
"Maimonides and Gersonides on Mosaic Prophecy," Speculum
42 (1977): 62-79.
[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-7134%28197701%2952%3A1%3C62%3AMAGOMP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6]
7.
"Rabbi Isaac Abravanel on the Principles of Judaism," Journal
of the American Academy of Religion 45 (1977): 1183-1200.
[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7189%28197712%2945%3A4%3C500%3ARIAOTP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J]
8.
"Rabbi Levi Ben Gerson: A Bibliographical Essay," Studies
in Bibliography and Booklore 12 (1979): 13-23.
9.
"Maimonides, Crescas, and Abravanel on Exodus 20:2--A Medieval
Jewish Exegetical Debate," Jewish Quarterly Review 69 (1979):
129-157.
[http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1454595.pdf]
10.
"Gersonides on Miracles, the Messiah and Resurrection," Da'at
4 (1980): 5-34.
11.
"Rabbi Isaac Abravanel on Maimonides' Principles of Faith,"
Tradition 18 (1980): 343-356.
12.
"Gersonides on the Problem of Volitional Creation," Hebrew
Union College Annual 51 (1980): 111-128.
13.
"Jewish Philosophy in the 1980's--Preliminary Comments," Studies
in Jewish Philosophy 1 (1980): 10-15.
14.
"Maimonides' 'Thirteen Principles' and the Structure of the Guide
of the Perplexed," Journal of the History of Philosophy
20 (1982): 76-84.
15.
"Rabbi Shimon ben Zemah Duran on the Principles of Judaism,"
Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 48 (1981):
231-265.
16.
"Jewish Dogmatics After the Spanish Expulsion: Rabbis Isaac Abravanel
and Joseph Yabes on Belief in Creation as an Article of Faith,"
Jewish Quarterly Review 72 (1982): 178-187.
[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-6682%28198201%292%3A72%3A3%3C178%3AJDATSE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D]
17.
"Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought: A Bibliographical Survey,"
Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 15 (1984): 5-21.
18.
"What is Heresy?" Studies in Jewish Philosophy 3 (1983):
55-70.
18a.
"Inadvertent Heresy in Medieval Jewish Thought: Maimonides and
Abravanel vs. Duran and Crescas?" Jerusalem Studies in Jewish
Thought 3 (1984): 393-403 (Hebrew).
18b.
"What is Heresy?" reprinted in N. Samuelson (ed.), Studies
in Jewish Philosophy: Collected Essays of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy,
1980-85 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987): 191-214.
19.
"Bibago on Dogma," Da'at 15 (1985): 89-101 (Hebrew).
20.
"Messianic Postures in Israel Today," Modern Judaism
6 (1986): 197-209.
[http://www.jstor.org/view/02761114/ap050017/05a00060/0]
20a.
Reprint in: Marc Saperstein (ed.), Essential Papers on Messianic
Movements in Jewish History (New York: New York University Press,
1992): 504-519.
21.
"The Conception of the Torah as a Deductive Science in Medieval
Jewish Thought," Revue des Etudes Juives 146 (1987): 265-79.
21a.
Revised version of preceding article in M. Gruber (ed.), Solomon
Goldman Lectures 6 (1993): 139-49.
22.
"Heresy and the Nature of Faith in Medieval Jewish Philosophy,"
Jewish Quarterly Review 77 (1987): 299-318.
[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-6682%28198704%292%3A77%3A4%3C299%3AHATNOF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N]
22a.
Reprint in: The Jewish Philosophy Reader, ed. Daniel H. Frank,
Oliver Leaman, and Charles Manekin (London: Routledge, 2000).
23.
"Reflections on the Impossibility of Jewish Ethics," Moshe
Schwarcz Memorial Volume (Bar Ilan Annual, 22-23) (1987): 45-52.
24.
"A Suggestion Concerning Maimonides' Thirteen Principles and the
Status of Gentiles in the Messianic Era," Tura: Oranim Studies
in Jewish Thought: Simon Greenberg Jubilee Volume, (Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz
Ha-Meuhad, 1988): 249-260 (Hebrew).
25.
"Introduction to the Commentary on Song of Songs Composed by the
Sage R. Levi ben Gerson--Annotated Translation," J. Neusner (ed.),
From Ancient to Modern Judaism: Essays in Honor of Marvin Fox
Vol. 2 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989): 187-205.
25b.
Revised edition (without notes) reprinted in: C. Sirat, et al. (eds.),
Les méthodes de travail de Gersonide et le maniement du savoir
cez les scholastiques (Paris: Vrin, 2003): 326-335.
26.
"Gersonides' Introduction to his Commentary on Song of Songs --
Critical Edition of the Hebrew Text with Source Notes," Da'at
23 (1989): 15-32 (Hebrew).
27.
"The Place of Ethics in Medieval Jewish Philosophy -- The Case
of Rav Sa'adia Gaon," Solomon Goldman Essays in Judaica
5 (1990): 56-70.
27a.
Reprint: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
9 (1990): 32-47.
28.
"Jewish Ethics," Peter Singer (ed.) A Companion to Ethics
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991): 82-91.
28a.
Serbian translation in: Ranko Orlic (ed.), Judaizam i Poslovna Etika
[=Judaism and Business Ethics] (Belgrade, 2003).
29.
"Reading Rambam: Approaches to the Interpretation of Maimonides,"
Jewish History 5 (1991): 73-93.
30.
"Maimonides' Conception of the Ultimate Meaning of Life,"
Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning 14 (1991): 175-84.
31.
"On the Status of the Astronomy and Physics in Maimonides' Mishneh
Torah: A Chapter in the History of Science," British Journal
for the History of Science 24 (1991): 453-63.
32.
"Gersonides' Commentary on Song of Songs: Why He Wrote it and to
Whom it was Addressed," G. Dahan (ed.), Gersonide en son Temps
(Paris and Louvain; Peeters, 1991): 81-107.
33.
"The Virtue of Faith," L. E. Goodman (ed.), Neoplatonism
and Jewish Thought (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992): 195-205.
34.
"Bibliographia Gersonideana," in G. Freudenthal (ed.), Studies
on Gersonides -- A Fourteenth Century Philosopher Scientist (Leiden:
E.J. Brill, 1992): 367-414.
35.
"Revelation and Messianism: A Maimonidean Study," Dan Cohn-Sherbok
(ed.), Torah and Revelation (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992):
117-33.
36.
"Chosenness, Not Chauvinism: Maimonides on the Chosen People,"
Daniel H. Frank (ed.), A People Apart: Chosenness and Ritual in Jewish
Philosophical Thought (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993): 51-76, 85-89.
37.
"Maimonides on the Science of the Mishneh Torah -- Provisional
or Permanent?" AJS Review 18 (1993): 169-94.
[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0364-0094%281993%2918%3A2%3C169%3AMOTSOT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A]
38.
"Steven Schwarzschild," in Steven T. Katz (ed.), Interpreters
of Judaism in the Late Twentieth Century (Washington, D.C.: Bnai
Brith, 1993): 281-300.
39.
"Maimonides and Gersonides on Astronomy and Metaphysics,"
S. Kottek and F. Rosner (eds.), Moses Maimonides: Physician, Scientist
and Philosopher (Northvale: Jason Aronson, 1993): 91-96 and 249-51.
40.
"Maimonides and Samuel ibn Tibbon on Jeremiah 9:22-23 and Human
Perfection," in M. Beer (ed.) Studies in Halakha and Jewish
Thought Presented to Rabbi Prof. Emanuel Rackman (Ramat Gan: Bar
Ilan University Press, 1994): 49-57.
41.
"Isaac Abravanel on Dogma and Faith," Da'at 32-33 (1994):
x1vii-lix.
42.
"Politics and Perfection: Gersonides vs. Maimonides," Jewish
Political Studies Review 6 (1994): 49-82.
43.
"Gersonides on the Song of Songs and the Nature of Science,"
Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 4 (1994): 1-21.
44.
"Metinut (Moderation)," in A. Kasher (ed.), Middot vi-Regashot
(Ramat Gan: Hoshen la-Mishpat, 1994): 187-91 (in Hebrew).
45.
"The Structure of Jewish Ethics," in E. Dorff and L. Newman
(eds.), Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1995): 12-24 (reprint of Introduction to my anthology,
Contemporary Jewish Ethics).
45a.
Expanded and revised in "Ethics of Judaism," J. Neusner, A.
Avery-Peck and Wm. S. Green (eds.), The Encyclopaedia of Judaism
(Leiden: Brill, 2000), Vol. 2, pp. 250-260.
46.
"Gersonides on the Role of the Active Intellect in Human Cognition,"
Hebrew Union College Annual 65 (1994): 233-59.
47.
"Gersonides on Imitatio Dei and the Dissemination of Scientific
Knowledge," Jewish Quarterly Review 85 (1995): 275-96.
[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=00216682%28199501%2F04%292%3A85%3A3%2F4%3C275%3AGOIDAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T]
48.
"On Universalism and Particularism in Judaism," Da'at
36 (1996): v-xv.
49.
"Communication or Lack Thereof Among 13th- 14th Century Provençal
Jewish Philosophers: Moses ibn Tibbon and Gersonides on Song of Songs,"
S. Menache (ed.), Communication in the Jewish Diaspora (Leiden:
Brill, 1996): 227-55.
50."Well,
Can There Be Jewish Ethics or Not?" Journal of Jewish Thought
and Philosophy 5 (1996): 237-41.
51.
"Maimonides' Allegiances to Torah and Science," Torah U
Madda Journal 7 (1997): 88-104.
52.
"Maimonides on the Decline of the Generations," Y. Elman and
J. Gurock (eds.), Hazon Nahum: Studies Presented to Dr Norman Lamm
(New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1997): 163-85.
53.
"Philosophical Misogyny in Medieval Jewish Thought: Gersonides
vs. Maimonides," in A. Ravitzky (ed.), Y. Sermonetta Memorial
Volume (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1998): 113-28 (Hebrew).
54.
"Israel-Diaspora Relations After the Assassination: Can We Remain
One People?" in Linzer, Schnall and Chanes (eds.), A Portrait
of the American Jewish Community (Westport CN: Prager, 1998): 165-76.
55.
"Maimonides' Commentary on Mishnah Hagigah II.1: Translation
and Commentary," Marc D. Angel (ed.), From Strength to Strength:
Lectures from Shearith Israel (New York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1998):
101-111.
56.
"Can Orthodoxy Share the Public Square?" Jewish Political
Studies Review 11 (1999): 127-43.
57.
"Could Maimonides Get Into Rambam's Heaven?" Journal of
Jewish Thought and Philosophy 8 (1999): 231-242.
58.
"How Ought a Jew View Christian Beliefs About Redemption?"
in D. Novak, et al. (eds), Christianity in Jewish Terms (Boulder:
Westview, 2000): 269-274, 396-397 (this article appeared with a response
by Clark Williamson, pp. 285-291).
59. "Strauss'
Maimonides vs. Maimonides' Maimonides: Could Maimonides have been both
Enlightened and Orthodox?" Le'ela, December, 2000: 29-36.
59a. Hebrew translation:
Iyyun 50 (2001): 397-406.
60. "The Literary
Character of the Mishneh Torah: On the Art of Writing in Maimonides'
Halakhic Works," E. Fleisher, G. Blidstein, C Horowitz, and B.
Septimus (eds.) Me'ah She'arim: Studies in Medieval Jewish Spiritual
Life in Memory of Isadore Twersky (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2001):
29-45.
61. "Overcoming
Chosenness," in Raphael Jospe, Truman Madsen, Seth Ward (eds.),
Covenant and Chosenness in Judaism and Mormonism, (Fairlawn:
Associated University Presses, 2001): 147-172.
62. "Maimonides
on the ‘Normality’ of Hebrew," Jonathan Malino (ed.), Judaism
and Modernity: The Religious Philosophy of David Hartman (Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2004): 413-444.
63. "Torah
and Science in Modern Jewish Thought: Steven Schwarzschild vs. Yeshayahu
Leibowitz," Gad Freudenthal, Jean-Pierre Rothschild and Gilbert
Dahan (eds.), Torah et Science: Perspectives historiques et théoriques:
etudes offertes à Charles Touati (Paris/Louvain: Peeters,
2001). (Collection de la Revue des Etudes juives): 229-237.
64. "Was Maimonides
Truly Universalist?" Trumah: Beitraege zur juedischen Philosophie
11 (Festgabe zum 80. Geburtstag von Ze'ev Levy) (2001): 3-15.
65. "Is Maimonides'
Ideal Person Austerely Rationalist?" American Catholic Philosophical
Quarterly 76 (2002): 125-143.
66. "Maimonides
on the Nature of Ritual Purity and Impurity," Da'at 50-52
(2003): 1-30.
67. "Bibliographia
Gersonideana 1992-2002," Aleph 3 (2003): 343-374.
68. "The Moral
Significance of the Laws of Ritual Purity and Impurity – A Maimonidean
Study," Sha'anan 9 (2004): 213-221 (Hebrew).
69. "Rabbis
in Politics: A Study in Medieval and Modern Jewish Political Theory,"
State and Society 3 (2003): 673-698 (Hebrew).
70. "A Selected
Bibliography of Studies on Maimonides, 1991-," Jewish History
18 (2004): 243-289.
71. "Steven
Schwarzschild, Moses Maimonides, and 'Jewish Non-Jews'," in Görge
K. Hasselhoff and Otfried Fraisse (eds.), Moses Maimonides (1138-1204)
- His Religious, Scientifical, and Philosophical Wirkungsgeschichte
in Different Cultural Contexts (Ergon: Wuerzburg, 2004): 587-606.
72. "Worship
of the Heart vs. Worship in the Temple: A Study in Maimonides,"
Sha'anan 10 (2005): 131-139 (Hebrew).
73. "Reflections
on Jewish Religion in a Democratic State," Aviezer Ravitzky (ed.),
Religion and State in Twentieth Century Jewish Thought [Dat u-Medinah
be-Hagut ha-Yehudit be-Me'ah ha-Esrim] (Jerusalem: Israel Democracy
Institute, 2005): 473-488 (Hebrew).
74. "Mishneh
Torah - Why?" Mesorah le-Yosef 4 (2005): 316-329 (Hebrew).
75. "Spiritual
Life," in Kenneth Seeskin (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Maimonides
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005): 273-299.
76. "Religious
Faith in the Middle Ages and Today," Moshe Halbertal, David Kurzweil,
and Avi Sagi (eds.), Al Ha-Emunah (Jerusalem: Keter, 2005): 312-327,
647-650 (Hebrew).
77. "'Farteitsht
un Farbessert': Comments on Tendentious 'Corrections' to Maimonidean
Texts," B. Ish-Shalom (ed.), Be-Darkei Shalom: Iyyunim be-Hagut
Yehudit Mugashim li-Shalom Rosenberg (Jerusalem: Bet Morashah, 2006):
255-263 (Hebrew).
77a. English Translation:
"Farteitcht un Farbessert (On 'Correcting' Maimonides) in
Me'orot [=Edah Journal] 6.2 (2007). (http://www.yctorah.org/content/view/211/64/)
78. "A New
and Unexpected Textual Witness to the Reading 'He Who Kills a Single
Person – It is as if He Destroyed an Entire World," Tarbiz
75 (2006): 565-566 (Hebrew).
79. "Did the
Torah Precede the Cosmos? – A Maimonidean Study," Da'at
61 (2007): 83-96 (Hebrew).
80. "Maimonides'
Critique of the Rabbinic Culture of His Day," in Daniel H. Frank
and Mathew Goldish (eds.), Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics: Jewish
Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008): 83-116.
81. "Each
Generation and its Maimonides: The Maimonides of Rabbi Aharon Kotler,"
in U. Ehrlich, H. Kreisel, D. Lasker (eds.), By the Well: Studies
in Jewish Philosophy and Halakhic Thought Presented to Gerald J. Blidstein
(Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2008)
(Hebrew): 463-486.
82. " Philosophical
Themes in Maimonides’ Sefer Ahavah," in Idit Dobbs-Weinstein,
Lenn Evan Goodman, and James Grady (eds.), Maimonides and His Heritage
(Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming): 25-47.
83."Rashi
and Maimonides on Torah and the Cosmos," Ephraim Kanarfogel (ed.),
From Rashi to Maimonides: Themes in Medieval Jewish Thought, Law
and Interpretation (forthcoming).
84. "Maimonides'
Moses: Torah, History, and Cosmos," Hannah Kasher (ed.), The
Man Moses (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, forthcoming) (Hebrew).
85. "The Beautiful
Captive and Maimonides' Attitude Towards Gentiles," in Stephen
D. Benin (ed.), Jewish-Gentile Relations Through the Ages (Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, forthcoming).
86. "Maimonides'
Disputed Legacy," Stefan Reif and Samuel Kottek (eds.), ?????
Brill forthcoming.
