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Forum für Komparative Theologie

Workshop | parental mourning for the loss of a child

CTSI Rabinstr. 8, Bonn, NRW, Deutschland

The workshop will be about parental mourning for the loss of a child. Shira Billet will discuss with us the similarities she discovered between a Jewish midrashic tradition on this topic that is first attested in the middle ages, and an Islamic tradition on this same topic. Both of these sources examine the concept of […]

Lecture | Hermann Cohen on the Relationship between Philosophy and Philology in Neo-Kantian Philosophy and the Study of Judaism

CTSI Rabinstr. 8, Bonn, NRW, Deutschland

From his early philosophical writings on Kant in the 1870s to his late writings on Judaism, Hermann Cohen’s philosophical method relied on establishing the proper relationship between philosophy and philology. Influenced by the historical methods of both classical philology and the Wissenschaft des Judentums, Cohen brought philological methods to his study of Kant and the […]