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Judaism and Theology: Essays on the Jewish Religion »

Authors: Louis Jacobs
ISBN-13: 9780853035633, ISBN-10: 0853035636
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Mitchell Vallentine & Company
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Louis Jacobs

Book Synopsis

A former rabbi in London and scholar of religious studies, Jacobs reprints 18 articles and essays from publication between the 1960s and 1990s, and adds a new one, on Jewish theology and some topics arising from it. They do not form a coherent whole, but make accessible some of his thinking on various aspects at different times. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

1	The Jewish approach to God	1
2	The Via Negativa in Jewish thought	10
3	Jewish cosmology	22
4	The problem of the Akedah in Jewish thought	39
5	Holy places	51
6	The Jewish tradition	66
7	The body in Jewish worship : three rituals examined	83
8	Attitudes towards Christianity in the Halakhah	102
9	Rabbi Ephraim Ha-Kohen and a heretical sermon	117
10	Hasidism and the dogma of the decline of the generations	126
11	The relevance and irrelevance of Hasidism	134
12	Praying for the downfall of the wicked	144
13	Rabbi Aryeh Laib Heller's theological introduction to his Shev Shematata	159
14	Rabbi Meir Simhah of Dvinsk	196
15	Zionism after 100 years	209
16	Sanctity and meaning of human life in relation to the present situation of violence	218
17	Concept of power in Jewish tradition	225
18	Contemporary Judaism	238
19	Angels and feminism	251