Abraham Skorka

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Abraham Skorka (2015)

Abraham Skorka (* 5 July 1950 as ABRAHAN Skorka in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine biophysicist , rabbi and an author. Abraham Skorka is rector of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary ( Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires), rabbi of the Benei Tikva Jewish community , professor of biblical and rabbinical literature at the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary and teacher of Talmudic law at the Catholic Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires as well as at the Jesuit Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires.

In 1979 he obtained a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires . Skorka has published scientific publications in the field of biophysics and numerous articles in the field of biblical and Talmudic research.

Abraham Skorka held a series of interfaith conversations with Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio , later Pope Francis, on topics such as God , fundamentalism , atheists , death , the Holocaust , homosexuality and capitalism . The dialogues, which took place alternately at the seat of the bishop and at the Jewish community of Benei Tikva, were summarized by the two in a book entitled Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra (On Heaven and Earth).

Honors

Works

Books
  • Miles de años por semana: vision actual de la lectura de la Torah. 1997
  • Co-author and editor: Introducción al Derecho Hebreo. 2001, ISBN 978-9502312002
  • ¿Hacia un mañana sin fe? Ediciones Asamblea Rabinica Latinoamericana, 2007, ISBN 978-9875506374 .
  • Jorge Mario Bergoglio , Abraham Skorka: Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra. Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 2010, ISBN 9789500732932 .
Audio cassette
  • "Maimonides' Laws of Giving to the Poor," Rabbi Abraham Skorka, Rabbinical Assembly, 2000
Article published by La Nacion (selection)
Exemplary scientific article

See also

Web links

photos
Videos

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uca.edu.ar/index.php/site/index/es/uca/facultades/buenos-aires/teologia/docentes/cv/pietrantonio/
  2. ↑ Source for the article: Review of Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra ( Memento of September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Report on the award of an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Católica Argentina to Abraham Skorka (Spanish)
  4. ↑ La Nacion
  5. ^ Judaic Lecture Audio Cassette Tape Collection ( Memento December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Skorka, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skorka, Armando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine biophysicist, rabbi and specialist book author
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires