Curriculum Vitae

Dr Daniel Rynhold Home Address: 780 Winthrop Road, Teaneck, New Jersey, 07666 Tel: 201 836 2636 Cell: 201 238 3049

Work Address: Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University, 500 West 185th Street, New York, NY 10033-3201 Tel: 212 960 5253 e-mail: [email protected]

Date of Birth: 01.03.71 Nationality: British Marital Status: Married Children: Zack (23.03.96), Chloe (03.12.97), Aimee (14.01.01), Phoebe (22.01.05)

CURRENT AFFILIATION Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Philosophy Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University, Sept 2007- Courses The Problem of Evil in Modern Jewish Philosophy Themes in 20th Century Jewish Philosophy The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Lecturer in Judaism Department of Theology & Religious Studies, King’s College London, Jan 2001-August2007 Courses Undergraduate: Introduction to Jewish Thought and Practice; Varieties of Judaism; Jewish Law; Jewish Responses to Modernity; Contemporary Jewish Philosophy (Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik); Law and Jewish Philosophy Postgraduate: Ethics in Medieval Jewish Thought,

Lecturer in Jewish Studies London School of Jewish Studies, London, Sept 1999- Dec.2000 Courses Undergraduate: Introduction to Jewish Thought; Jewish Law; Hebrew Language; Postgraduate: Classical Jewish Philosophy Tutorial Fellow London School of Jewish Studies, London, Sept 1998-Aug 1999 Courses Undergraduate: Introduction to Jewish Thought; Jewish Law; Hebrew Language

Temporary Lecturer Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, Feb. 1999- April 1999 Course Undergraduate: Survey of Jewish History and Culture from 1800

Part time tutor Department of Philosophy, London School of Economics, Oct. 1995-June 1998 Courses Undergraduate: Philosophical Logic & Metaphysics; Advanced Social Philosophy

ADULT & COMMUNAL EDUCATION Tutor Florence Melton Adult Mini School, 2nd year tutor, Ethics Course, 1999-2007 Faculty Member London School of Jewish Studies, Ethics Faculty, 2004- 2007 Assistant Minister Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue, 1993-7

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS British Academy Three- Year Award 1994-1997 British Academy One-Year Award 1993-1994 St John’s College, Cambridge, Davidson Scholarship 1993 St John’s College, Cambridge, Newcome Prize 1993 St John’s College, Cambridge, Davidson Scholarship 1992 St John’s College, Cambridge, Newcome Prize 1992

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS London School of Economics PhD in Philosophy, March 2000 Thesis Title: Justifying One’s Practices: Two Models of Jewish Philosophy Thesis Supervisor: Professor David Hillel Ruben

University College London MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 1994 Class: Distinction Thesis Title: Life Affirmation and Repentant Man in the Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

St Johns College, University of Cambridge BA (Cantab) Philosophy, 1993 (upgraded to MA, 1997) Class: Double First

OTHER PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS King’s College London Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, 2003 Class: Distinction

PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS A) BOOKS 1) Justifying One’s Practices: Two Models of Jewish Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

Work in Progress An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy (contract with I.B. Tauris for 2008)

B) CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 1) ‘Letting the facts get in the way of a good thesis: Soloveitchik’s Philosophical Method’ in A Rosenak and N. Rothenberg eds. Studies Exploring Rabbi J. D. Soloveitchik’s Influence on Culture, Education and Jewish Thought (Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute/Magnes Press) (in press) 2) ‘The Problem of Evil’, in N. de Lange and M. Freud Kandel, eds. Modern Judaism (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005)

C) JOURNAL ARTICLES 1) ‘Modernity and Jewish Orthodoxy: Nietzsche and Soloveitchik on Life-Affirmation, Asceticism, and Repentance’ (co-authored with Dr Michael Harris), Harvard Theological Review (forthcoming, 2008) 2) ‘The Philosophical Foundations of Soloveitchik’s Critique of Interfaith Dialogue,’ Harvard Theological Review, 96:1 (2003), 101-120 3) ‘Good and Evil, Truth and Falsity: Maimonides and Moral Cognitivism’, Trumah, 12 (2002), 163-182 4) ‘Judaism and Science: A Conflict Revisited’, Le’ela, 50 (2000), 37-44

D) INTERNET ARTICLES 1) Entry on ‘Yeshayahu Leibowitz’ commissioned for 2007 for The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Principal Editor: Edward N. Zalta, http://plato.stanford.edu/

E) PUBLISHED LECTURES 1) ‘Das ethische Gewissen und die Halachah’ in C. Bultman, C. P. März and J. Malik (eds.), Mahnung und Warnung: Die Lehre der Religionen über das rechte Leben (Aschendorff: Münster, 2006)

F) BOOK REVIEWS 1) Kenneth Seeskin, Maimonides on the Origin of the World, AJS Review, 31: 1 (2007), 185-7 2) Seymour Feldman, Philosophy in a Time of Crisis; Don Isaac Abravanel: Defender of the Faith, Jewish Culture and History, 8:1 (2006), 78-81 3) Joseph B. Soloveitchik The Emergence of Ethical Man, Michael Berger (ed.). Religious Studies, 42: 3 (2006), 364-8 4) Jerome I. Gellman, Abraham! Abraham! Kierkegaard and the Hasidim on the Binding of Isaac, Religious Studies, 41:1 (2005), 116-20 5) Steven Nadler, Spinoza’s Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind, Jewish Culture and History, 6:2 (2003), 80-3 6) Mel Scult, ed. Communings of the Spirit: the Journals of Modercai M. Kaplan, vol. 1, 1913-1934, Journal of Jewish Studies, 54:1 (2003), 180 7) Aharon Rakeffet Rothkoff, The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Journal of Jewish Studies, 53:1 (2002), 187-8 8) Ralph Lerner, Maimonides’ Empire of Light, Le’ela, 52 (2001), 60-1 9) David Hartman, Love and Terror in the God Encounter, Le’ela, 52 (2001), 61-2 10) Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Fate and Destiny, in Le’ela, 51 (2001), 84-5 11) Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Family Redeemed, D. Shatz & J. Wolowelsky (eds.), Le’ela, 50 (2000), 92-3 12) Leon Roth, Is There a Jewish Philosophy?, Journal of Jewish Studies, 51:1 (2000), 171-2 13) Menachem D. Genack, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Man of Halacha, Man of Faith, Le’ela, 48 (1999), 70-1 14) Marc D. Angel ed. Exploring the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik in Le’ela 47 (1999), 63-5 15) [With Dr Tamra Wright] Edward Craig, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Le’ela, 48 (1999), 75-6 16) Josef Stern, Problems and Parables of Jewish Law, Journal of Jewish Studies, 50:1 (1999), 167-8