Dr. Daniel Rynhold is the Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Philosophy at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies

Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies was Yeshiva University’s first graduate school. Founded in 1937, it was named for Yeshiva University's first president, Bernard Revel...

 at Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University

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 in New York

New York

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 a post which he has held since August 2007. He was previously Lecturer in Judaism in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College, London. He received a B.A. in Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 at Cambridge University, a MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London

University College London

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 and a PhD in Jewish Philosophy

Jewish philosophy

Jewish philosophy , includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or, in relation to the religion of Judaism. Jewish philosophy, until modern Enlightenment and Emancipation, was pre-occupied with attempts to reconcile coherent new ideas into the tradition of Rabbinic Judaism; thus organizing...

 at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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Dr. Rynhold also teaches at the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies.

His academic interests include the philosophical thought of Moses Maimonides and Joseph Soloveitchik

Joseph Soloveitchik

Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a descendant of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty....

and the relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish philosophy.

Publications

• "Good and Evil, Truth and Falsity: Maimonides and Moral Cognitivism." Trumah No. 12 (2002),pp. 163–182.
• Two Models of Jewish Philosophy: Justifying One's Practices, (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy, (I. B. Tauris, 2009)