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Authors: Jakob Josef Petuchowski
ISBN-13: 9780827605770, ISBN-10: 0827605773
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Date Published: October 1998
Edition: 1 ED

Author Biography: Jakob Josef Petuchowski

Book Synopsis

Jakob Petuchowski was a leading scholar in the Reform movement, especially in the field of liturgy. This collection of twenty-two essays and studies represents a cross section of his work. Dr. Petuchowski embodied a dynamic synthesis of traditional learning and modern thinking. The essays collected here pay tribute to the world of German Jewish scholarship that formed the background out of which his ideas emerged.

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	A Note from the Editors
	Introduction
	Biblical and Rabbinic Thought
	Faith and Works in the Biblical Confrontation of Prophets and Priests	3
	The Concept of Teshubhah in the Bible and the Talmud	13
	The Mumar - A Study in Rabbinic Psychology	25
	Qol Adonai: A Study in Rabbinic Theology	37
	The Rabbi and the Tree (Abhoth 3:7)	47
	On the Frontiers of Theology
	Frontiers of Jewish Theology	55
	Plural Models within the Halakhah	61
	Speaking of God	75
	Messianic Dialectics within Judaism	89
	The Concept of Revelation in Reform Judaism	101
	Confrontation with Modernity
	The Danger of Thinking in Our Ancestors' Categories	115
	The Quantification of Piety	125
	Dissenting Thoughts about the Holocaust	131
	"Jewish Survival" and Anti-Semitism	139
	Liturgy and Reform
	Some Laws of Jewish Liturgical Development	153
	Liberal Halakhah and Liturgy	169
	Modern Misunderstandings of an Ancient Benediction	183
	From Censorship Prevention to theological Reform: A Study in the Modern Jewish Prayerbook	193
	History of Reform Judaism
	Frankfurt Jewry: A Model of Transition to Modernity	223
	Manuals and Catechisms of the Jewish Religion in the Early Period of Emancipation	239
	Abraham Geiger and Samuel Holdheim: Their Differences in Germany and Repercussions in America	257
	Bibliography of the Scholarly Publications of Jakob Josef Petuchowski	283
	List of Biblical Passages Cited	295
	List of Rabbinic Passages Cited	299
	Index	303