Daniel
Rynhold
Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Professor of Jewish Philosophy
Wilf campus - Furst Hall
Room 327
Daniel Rynhold is Dean and Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, having arrived on these shores from London, England, in August 2007. Educated at the universities of Cambridge and London, Dr. Rynhold had previously been a lecturer in Judaism in the department of theology and religious studies at King’s College London, a position he had held since 2001. This followed two years as a lecturer at the renowned Jews’ College of London. He also served as Shoshana Shier Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto in 2020 at the department of philosophy and the Anne Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Studies
Medieval & Modern Jewish philosophy; ta'amei ha-mitzvot and the nature of practical justification; Religious Language; Moses Maimonides; Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Friedrich Nietzsche
Books Authored
Nietzsche, Soloveitchik, and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2018) [Co-authored with Michael J. Harris]
An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy (I.B. Tauris, 2009)
Two Models of Jewish Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Books Edited
Routledge Companion to Jewish Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 2025) [co-edited with Tyron Goldschmidt]
Radical Responsibility: Essays in Ethics, Religion and Leadership Presented to Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (Jerusalem: Maggid Books, 2013) [co-edited with Michael Harris and Tamra Wright]
Selected Articles & Book Chapters
“Approaching God Aesthetically in Modern Jewish Thought,” Modern Theology 39:2 (2023): 272-93
“The nature of good and evil” in Dan Frank and Aaron Segal (eds.), Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
“Response to Kepnes: Theology and Aesthetics,” Journal of Textual Reasoning 12:1 (2021): 101-113 https://doi.org/10.21220/s2-vjbs-ys24
“Maimonides’s Theology,” in Steven Kepnes (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
“Religious Diversity,” in Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. and Graham Oppy, eds. Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy (Gale, 2019), 227-41
“Yeshayahu Leibowitz”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2019/entries/leibowitz-yeshayahu/
“Science or Hermeneutics? Soloveitchik's Scientific Method Revisited,” in Ephraim Kanarfogel and Dov Schwartz (eds.), Scholarly Man of Faith: The Thought and Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Ktav/Urim Publications, 2018)
“Covenant, History, and the Holocaust: Emil Fackenheim’s Philosophy Revisited,” Harvard Theological Review, 109:1 (2016), 129-43
Find Daniel Rynhold's publications on YAIR: Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository
Wilf campus - Furst Hall
Room 327