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

Moses Maimonides Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (, ) and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (), was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle A ...

and

Joseph Soloveitchik Joseph Ber Soloveitchik ( ''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 of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic d ...

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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