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JOEL, MANUEL (1826–189o)

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JOEL, See also:MANUEL (1826–189o) , Jewish philosopher and preacher. After teaching for several years at the See also:Breslau rabbinical semi-nary, founded by Z. See also:Frankel, he became the successor of See also:Abraham Geiger in the rabbinate of Breslau. He made important contributions to the See also:history of the school of Aqiba (q.v.) as well as to the history of Jewish See also:philosophy, his essays on See also:Ibn Gabirol and See also:Maimonides being of permanent See also:worth. But his most influential See also:work was connected with the relations between Jewish philosophy and the See also:medieval See also:scholasticism. He showed how Albertus See also:Magnus derived some of his ideas from Maimonides and how See also:Spinoza was indebted to the same writer, as well as to Hasdai See also:Crescas. These essays were collected in two volumes of Beitrdge zur Geschichte der Philosophic (1876)3 while another two volumes of Blicke in See also:die Religionsgeschichte (188o–1883) threw much See also:light on the development of religious thought in the See also:early centuries of the See also:Christian era. Equally renowned were Joel's See also:pulpit addresses. Though he was no orator, his See also:appeal to the See also:reason was effective, and in their published See also:form his three volumes of Predigten (issued posthumously) have found many readers. (I.

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