Professor Daniel Rynhold is Dean at the

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where he has worked since August 2007. He became the Shoshana Shier Distinguished Visiting Professor at the

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's Centre for Jewish Studies in 2019. He was previously Lecturer in Judaism in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at

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. He received a B.A. in

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, an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at

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and a PhD in

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at the

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. His doctoral thesis, dated 2000, was title
Justifying one's practices: Two models of Jewish philosophy.
Rynhold also teaches at the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies. His academic interests include the philosophical thought of

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and

Joseph Soloveitchik Joseph Ber Soloveitchik ( he, יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק ''Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik''; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion o ...

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)

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