The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology (Cambridge Companions to Religion)

Cambridge University Press, 12/17/2020
EAN 9781108401432, ISBN10: 1108401430

Paperback, 514 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology offers an overview of Jewish theology, an aspect of Judaism that is equal in importance to law and ethics. Covering the period from antiquity to the present, the volume focuses on what Jews believe about God and also about the relation of God to humans and the world. Parts I and II cover exciting new research in Jewish biblical and rabbinic theology, medieval philosophy, Kabbalah (mysticism), and liturgy. Parts III and IV turn to modern theology with an exploration of works by leading figures, such as Rabbi Abraham I. Kook, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as the relation of theology to issues such as feminism and the Holocaust, and the relation of Judaism to other world religions. In Part V, the book explores how the insights of analytic philosophy have been integrated with Jewish theology.

1. Introduction Steven Kepnes
2. What is Jewish Theology? David Novak
Part I. Biblical-Rabbinic
3. Jewish Biblical Theology Marvin A. Sweeney
4. The God of the Rabbis Moshe Halbertal
5. The Theology of the Daily Liturgy Reuven Kimelman
Part II. Medieval
6. Maimonides' Theology Daniel Rynhold
7. Law and Order
The Birth of a Nation and the Creation of the World Daniel Frank
8. The Mystical Theology of Kabbalah
From God to Godhead Adam Afterman
Part III. Modern
9. R. Kook
a This-worldly Mystic Tamar Ross
10. Rosenzweig's Midrashic Speech-acts
From Hegel and German Nationalism to a Modern-day Ba'al Teshuvah Jules Simon
11. Levinas's Theological Ethics Richard Cohen
Part IV. Contemporary Issues
12. The Holocaust and Jewish Theology Michael L. Morgan
13. Theology and Halakhah in Jewish Feminisms Ronit Irshai
14. Jewish Models of Revelation Alan Brill
15. Jewish Theology of Religions Alon Goshen-gottstein
Part V. Analytic Philosophy and Theology
16. Can There be a Positive Theology? Kenneth Seeskin
17. Theological Realism and its Alternatives in Contemporary Jewish Theology Cass Fisher
18. A Defense of Verbal Revelation
Words of the Living God Samuel Fleischacker
19. A Constructive Jewish Theology of God and Perfect Goodness Yehudah Gellman.