Authors: Norbert M. Samuelson
ISBN-13: 9780521089494, ISBN-10: 0521089492
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Norbert M. Samuelson is the Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies and Full Professor of Jewish Philosophy in the Religious Studies Department at Arizona State University. He is an internationally renowned scholar of Jewish philosophy and the author of six books including Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation (Cambridge, 1994 HB: 0521452147) and most recently A Users' Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's 'Star of Redemption '(1999).
Explores the concept of revelation as it emerges from the Hebrew Scriptures and is interpreted in Jewish philosophy and theology.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | The God of Revelation | |
1 | The God of Israel | 11 |
2 | The God of the philosophers | 22 |
3 | The God of the theologians | 42 |
4 | Franz Rosenzweig | 63 |
Pt. II | Is the God of Revelation Believable? | |
5 | The challenges of political ethics - issues of racism and the irrational | 93 |
6 | The challenges of modern science | 121 |
7 | The challenges of modern philosophy - rethinking God | 170 |
8 | Are the Hebrew Scriptures revealed? | 221 |
Conclusion | 236 | |
Works cited | 242 | |
Index of names | 248 | |
Index of subjects | 250 |