Jerome Gellman
Biographic Data
| ID | 518057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome Gellman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome |
| FAMILY NAME | Gellman |
| SIGNATURE | GELLMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7507-9409 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond Physicalism to Mystical Spirituality
Sharing Wisdom
It is logically impossible for everlasting God to fall into boredom
This article argues that everlasting God can be in boredom, but cannot fall into boredom. Hence, the argument by Andric and Tanyi (2017) in this journal that God could not be everlasting in time, because God would fall into boredom, is shown to be unsound, since it is logically impossible for God to fall into boredom
This Was from God
My Jewish theology of Jesus
I present my personal Jewish theology of Jesus. Jesus is a high soul who came to this world ahead of his time. This caused amazement as well as chaos. There will be a later historical event when the world will be ready to heed his teachings
Jewish Mysticism and Morality
Hasidic mysticism as an activism
In her important work, Hasidism as Mysticism: Quietistic Elements in Eighteenth Century Hasidic Thought , the late Rivkah Schatz-Uffenheimer depicted early eighteenth-century Hasidism as a movement with pronounced ‘quietist tendencies’. In this paper I raise several difficulties with this thesis. These follow from social-activist features of early Hasidism as well as from a selection from the writings of leading early Hasidic masters. I conclude …
Wellhausen and the Hasidim
Hasidism would seem to be a most unlikely place to find a hook on which to hang a contemporary Jewish theology that takes into account biblical criticism. Yet that is exactly where I am going to go in what follows, to present what I take to be a position that preserves the holiness of the Torah in the face of the historical-critical approach as to its authorship and composition. The use of Hasidism for this purpose has been tried before. I refer …
Prospects for a sound stage 3 of cosmological arguments
Recently, Religious Studies published an article by Richard Gale and Alexander Pruss, arguing that there exists a necessary being who is a creator of the world. Building on their argument, I argue that, assuming that there is exactly one creator, that creator is essentially omnipotent
In defence of a contented religious exclusivism
In this paper I defend the possibility that a ‘contented religious exclusivist’, will be fully rational and not neglectful of any of her epistemic duties when faced with the world’s religious diversity. I present an epistemic strategy for reflecting on one's beliefs and then present two features of religious belief that make contented exclusivism a rational possibility. I then argue against the positions of John Hick, David Basinger, and Steven W…
Buber's Blunder
Journal Article BUBER'S BLUNDER: BUBER'S REPLIES TO SCHOLEM AND SCHATZ-UFFENHEIMER Get access Jerome Gellman Jerome Gellman BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 20–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/20.1.20 Published: 01 February 2000
On a Sociological Challenge to the Veridicality of Religious Experience
This paper replies to Evan Fales' sociological explanation of mystical experience in two articles in Religious Studies vol. 32 (143–63 and 297–313). In these papers Fales applies the ideas of I. M. Lewis on spirit possession to show how mystical experiences can be accounted for as vehicles for the acquisition of political power and social control. The rebuttal of Fales contains three main elements: (a) the presentation of specific examples of the…
The Figure of Abraham in Hasidic Literature
The Hasidic movement started in the latter part of the eighteenth century in the Podolia section of Ukraine, under the influence of Israel Baal Shem Tov (1698–1760). By the middle of the nineteenth century Hasidism came to dominate the religious sensibilities of Eastern European Jewry. As it changed from a marginal, nascent revivalist curiosity to an establishment fixture, it attracted magnetic leaders of great pneumatic powers and created a rich…
Experience of God and the Rationality of Theistic Belief
Naming, and Naming God
In what follows I wish to make a contribution to the clarification of the logic of the name ‘God’. I will do so in two stages. In the first stage I will be investigating the meaning of names in general, and how names refer. In the second stage I will attempt to apply the findings of the first stage to the name ‘God’, in light of the way that name functions in religious discourse
"Levy, "David Baumgardt and Ethical Hedonism
Kierkegaard's fear and trembling
Religious Language
When are sentences A and B the same belief? Following Quine, observation sentences A and B are the same belief when they share the same stimulus–meaning, similar patterns of assent and dissent by subjects when the sentences are queried in the presence of the same non–linguistic stimuli. As for non–observation sentences we note a suggestion of Karl Schick: apply linguistic stimuli in the form of utterances of the language, and map the connections …
The religious option is a genuine option
In ‘The Will to Believe’, the religious hypothesis for William James says, first, ‘that the best things are the more eternal things’, and second, ‘that we are better off now if we believe her first affirmation to be true’ (p.26) He later qualifies the first affirmation: ‘The more perfect and more eternal aspect of the universe is represented in our religions as having personal form’ (p.27)
Suter on Russell on Meinong
Buber's Blunder
Journal Article BUBER'S BLUNDER: BUBER'S REPLIES TO SCHOLEM AND SCHATZ-UFFENHEIMER Get access Jerome Gellman Jerome Gellman BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 20–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/20.1.20 Published: 01 February 2000
Suter on Russell on Meinong
The religious option is a genuine option
In ‘The Will to Believe’, the religious hypothesis for William James says, first, ‘that the best things are the more eternal things’, and second, ‘that we are better off now if we believe her first affirmation to be true’ (p.26) He later qualifies the first affirmation: ‘The more perfect and more eternal aspect of the universe is represented in our religions as having personal form’ (p.27)
Religious Language
When are sentences A and B the same belief? Following Quine, observation sentences A and B are the same belief when they share the same stimulus–meaning, similar patterns of assent and dissent by subjects when the sentences are queried in the presence of the same non–linguistic stimuli. As for non–observation sentences we note a suggestion of Karl Schick: apply linguistic stimuli in the form of utterances of the language, and map the connections …
Kierkegaard's fear and trembling
"Levy, "David Baumgardt and Ethical Hedonism
Naming, and Naming God
In what follows I wish to make a contribution to the clarification of the logic of the name ‘God’. I will do so in two stages. In the first stage I will be investigating the meaning of names in general, and how names refer. In the second stage I will attempt to apply the findings of the first stage to the name ‘God’, in light of the way that name functions in religious discourse
On a Sociological Challenge to the Veridicality of Religious Experience
This paper replies to Evan Fales' sociological explanation of mystical experience in two articles in Religious Studies vol. 32 (143–63 and 297–313). In these papers Fales applies the ideas of I. M. Lewis on spirit possession to show how mystical experiences can be accounted for as vehicles for the acquisition of political power and social control. The rebuttal of Fales contains three main elements: (a) the presentation of specific examples of the…
The Figure of Abraham in Hasidic Literature
The Hasidic movement started in the latter part of the eighteenth century in the Podolia section of Ukraine, under the influence of Israel Baal Shem Tov (1698–1760). By the middle of the nineteenth century Hasidism came to dominate the religious sensibilities of Eastern European Jewry. As it changed from a marginal, nascent revivalist curiosity to an establishment fixture, it attracted magnetic leaders of great pneumatic powers and created a rich…
Experience of God and the Rationality of Theistic Belief
Prospects for a sound stage 3 of cosmological arguments
Recently, Religious Studies published an article by Richard Gale and Alexander Pruss, arguing that there exists a necessary being who is a creator of the world. Building on their argument, I argue that, assuming that there is exactly one creator, that creator is essentially omnipotent
In defence of a contented religious exclusivism
In this paper I defend the possibility that a ‘contented religious exclusivist’, will be fully rational and not neglectful of any of her epistemic duties when faced with the world’s religious diversity. I present an epistemic strategy for reflecting on one's beliefs and then present two features of religious belief that make contented exclusivism a rational possibility. I then argue against the positions of John Hick, David Basinger, and Steven W…
Buber's Blunder
Journal Article BUBER'S BLUNDER: BUBER'S REPLIES TO SCHOLEM AND SCHATZ-UFFENHEIMER Get access Jerome Gellman Jerome Gellman BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 20–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/20.1.20 Published: 01 February 2000
Hasidic mysticism as an activism
In her important work, Hasidism as Mysticism: Quietistic Elements in Eighteenth Century Hasidic Thought , the late Rivkah Schatz-Uffenheimer depicted early eighteenth-century Hasidism as a movement with pronounced ‘quietist tendencies’. In this paper I raise several difficulties with this thesis. These follow from social-activist features of early Hasidism as well as from a selection from the writings of leading early Hasidic masters. I conclude …
Wellhausen and the Hasidim
Hasidism would seem to be a most unlikely place to find a hook on which to hang a contemporary Jewish theology that takes into account biblical criticism. Yet that is exactly where I am going to go in what follows, to present what I take to be a position that preserves the holiness of the Torah in the face of the historical-critical approach as to its authorship and composition. The use of Hasidism for this purpose has been tried before. I refer …
Jewish Mysticism and Morality
This Was from God
My Jewish theology of Jesus
I present my personal Jewish theology of Jesus. Jesus is a high soul who came to this world ahead of his time. This caused amazement as well as chaos. There will be a later historical event when the world will be ready to heed his teachings
It is logically impossible for everlasting God to fall into boredom
This article argues that everlasting God can be in boredom, but cannot fall into boredom. Hence, the argument by Andric and Tanyi (2017) in this journal that God could not be everlasting in time, because God would fall into boredom, is shown to be unsound, since it is logically impossible for God to fall into boredom
Sharing Wisdom
Beyond Physicalism to Mystical Spirituality
Philosophy (17 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Theology (10 works) · Religious studies (7 works) · Judaism (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · Literature (5 works)