Amen to daat: On the foundations of Jewish epistemology

Samuel Lebens

doi:10.1017/S0034412521000470

Amen to daat: On the foundations of Jewish epistemology

Samuel Lebens

Department of Philosophy

University of Haifa

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Abstract

I argue that the Hebrew Bible adopts a non-doxastic account of propositional faith. In coming to this conclusion, we shall discover that Biblical Hebrew has no word for belief. What ramifications might this have had for biblical and Jewish epistemology? I begin to trace the sort of epistemic norms that might emerge from an epistemology that approaches knowledge by thinking about faith, rather than belief.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	465-478
Number of pages	14
Journal	Religious Studies
Volume	59
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412521000470
State	Published - 13 Sep 2023

Keywords

Emunah
Saadya Gaon
faith
non-propositional knowledge
the Malbim

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Religious studies
Philosophy

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