Ethical Monotheism: A Philosophy of Judaism

ISBN-13: 9780367892159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 300 str.

Ehud Benor

Opis

The book proposes a holistic model for study of religion and demonstrates its value by means of a multifaceted account of relations between religion and ethics in Judaism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Holistic Study of Judaism  1. The Tree of Knowledge: Limits of God’s Power Over Chaos  2. Afflictions of Love: Rabbinic Moral Psychology  3. Cosmological Halakha: Maimonides’s Ethico-Theology  4. Theosphic Torah: A Kabbalist Theory of Justice  5. Before the Law: Buber and Levinas - Totality vs Transcendence  6. Concluding Reflections  Postscript: Can Judaism Become Archaic? Appendices

O autorze

Ehud Benor is Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, USA