Daniel Rynhold

Daniel Rynhold arrived in the U.S. from London, England, in the summer of 2007 to take up the post of Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Philosophy at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University. Educated at the universities of Cambridge and London, Professor Rynhold had previously held positions in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies of King’s College London, and at Jews’ College of London. He has lectured in both formal and informal settings throughout England and the U.S., as well as in Canada, Germany, Holland and Israel. He has published both popular and scholarly articles covering various topics in Jewish Philosophy including the problem of evil, Nietzsche and Jewish philosophy, and the thought of Moses Maimonides and Joseph Soloveitchik, and is the author of "Two Models of Jewish Philosophy: Justifying One’s Practices" (Oxford University Press, 2005) and "An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy" (I.B. Tauris, 2009).