The Cambridge companion to Jewish Theology / edited by Steven Kepnes.
| Other author/creator | Kepnes, Steven, 1952- editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2020 |
| Description | xi, 498 pages ; 24 cm. |
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| Series | Cambridge Companions to Religion Cambridge companions to religion. ^A470450 |
| Contents | Introduction / Steven Kepnes -- What is Jewish Theology? / David Novak -- Part I. Biblical-Rabbinic -- Jewish Biblical Theology / Marvin A. Sweeney -- God of the Rabbis / Moshe Halbertal -- Theology of the Daily Liturgy / Reuven Kimelman -- Part II. Medieval -- Maimonides' Theology / Daniel Rynhold -- Law and Order: The Birth of a Nation and the Creation of the World / Daniel Frank -- Mystical Theology of Kabbalah: From God to Godhead / Adam Afterman -- Part III. Modern -- R. Kook: a This-Worldly Mystic / Tamar Ross -- Rosenzweig's Midrashic Speech-acts: From Hegel and German Nationalism to a Modern-day Ba'al Teshuvah / Jules Simon -- Levinas's Theological Ethics / Richard Cohen -- Part IV. Contemporary Issues -- Holocaust and Jewish Theology / Michael L. Morgan -- Theology and Halakhah in Jewish Feminisms / Ronit Irshai -- Jewish Models of Revelation / Alan Brill -- Jewish Theology of Religions / Alon Goshen-Gottstein -- Part V. Analytic Philosophy and Theology -- Can There be a Positive Theology? / Kenneth Seeskin -- Theological Realism and its Alternatives in Contemporary Jewish Theology / Cass Fisher -- Defense of Verbal Revelation: / Samuel Fleischacker -- Constructive Jewish Theology of God and Perfect Goodness / Jerome Yehudah Gellman. |
| Abstract | "Introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology Steven Kepnes The reader will find here, in this Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology, essays by leading Jewish Studies scholars that display the Jewish theological tradition as long, sustained, complex, and deep. This collection aims to show this with essays that cover the full historical span of Judaism from the Biblical through to the contemporary periods. Each essay is a gem filled with not only an overview of a topic that employs and reviews the best in contemporary scholarship, but also brings important new insights to it. One thing that will become obvious for the reader is the variety of theological approaches that Jews have taken to presenting and understanding God. For example, on the crucial issue of revelation, Alan Brill presents us with seven models of revelation in modern Jewish theology. I should also say, from the outset, that Jewish theology encompasses not only the issue of the nature of God but also the dynamic of inter-relations between God and humans and God and the world. I have attempted to focus the attention of my authors mainly on God but, quite naturally, a number of authors also discuss the relations between God and humans, God and the world. Here, for example, a figure like Emmanuel Levinas stands out for wanting to focus almost exclusively on ethical relations between humans"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Kepnes, Steven, 1952- Cambridge companion to Jewish Theology. 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020 9781108233705 |
| LCCN | 2020027276 |
| ISBN | 9781108401432 |
| ISBN | 9781108415439 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1108415431 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1108401430 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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