The Future of Jewish Theology
ISBN: 9780470659601 | 0470659602
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 1/22/2013
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The Future of Jewish Theology explores the concept of holiness as a path to recapturing the essence of faith.
This engaging argument for the future of Jewish theology, written by a renowned Jewish scholar, provides a masterly examination of the faith, its history, and its place in the modern world. Exploring both its historical evolution and Judaism's relationship with Israel and the wider world today, this fascinating book traces foundational Jewish structures and concepts through the discussion and interpretation... MORE
This engaging argument for the future of Jewish theology, written by a renowned Jewish scholar, provides a masterly examination of the faith, its history, and its place in the modern world. Exploring both its historical evolution and Judaism's relationship with Israel and the wider world today, this fascinating book traces foundational Jewish structures and concepts through the discussion and interpretation... MORE
Preface viii
Acknowledgments xii
1 You Shall Be Holy 1
Part One 27
2 Holy Blessings, Torah, People 29
3 Holy Shabbat 48
4 Holy Food and Holy Sacrifices 76
5 The Ethics of Holiness 102
6 Prophetic Holiness 124
Part Two 145
7 Ethical Monotheism 147
8 Textual Reasoning 172
9 Liturgical Reasoning 200
10 Scriptural Reasoning 219
11 High Holiness 246
Index 261
Steven Kepnes is Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion and Director of Jewish Studies at Colgate University, USA. His research and teaching focuses on Judaism, Jewish philosophy and ethics, and Western traditions in religion and philosophy. He is the author of numerous publications including Jewish Liturgical Reasoning (2007) and editor of Studying the ‘Other’, Understanding the ‘Self’: Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter (with Basit Koshul, 2007).
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