Proceedings of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy

David Novak,Norbert M. Samuelson

Format
Hardback
Publisher
University Press of America
Country
United States
Published
12 April 1992
Pages
426
ISBN
9780819179258

Proceedings of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy

David Novak,Norbert M. Samuelson

This book grew out of three annual meetings (1987, 1988, and 1989) of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy. The essays included in this volume deal with major issues of Jewish faith in our age and present a diversity of interpretations and positions by the leading Jewish thinkers in North America. Contents: Judaism and God-Talk: Eternal Truths in Changing Form; Jewish Philosophy in Covenantal Context; There’s No God Unless God Talks: A Study of Max Kadushin as Rabbinic Pragmatist; Judaism and God-Talk; The Positive Contribution of Negative Theology; In Defense of Images; Idolatry and Love of Appearances: Maimonides and Plato on False Wisdom; Judaism and the Varieties of Idolatrous Experience; The Inevitability of Idolatry; Basic Concepts in Rabbinic Hermeneutics; Hermeneutics in Contemporary Jewish Ethics; Midrash and History in Holocaust Interpretation; Buber’s Biblical Hermeneutics and Narrative Biblical Theology.

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