[PDF] Provisional Jewish Theology In A Postmodern Age eBook

Author : Steven Kepnes
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814746745

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Postmodernity marks a time of creative conflict when the voices of the other, previously rendered silent by the majority, are prominently heard. What effect has postmodernism had on Judaism? The neat narratives and metanarratives of the Jewish past are being questioned and deconstructed, allowing for different versions of Jewish history to emerge. For example, a postmodern exploration of the place of women in Talmudic culture can upset portraits of women as powerless and rabbis as closed off to female experience thereby helping to secure a place for women today. Similarly, an analysis of Zionism using concepts drawn from postmodern thinkers problematizes such basic Zionists concepts as nation, exile, and normalization, and raises significant questions concerning the relationship of Israel and the diaspora. The twelve contributors, including Daniel Boyarin, Elliot R. Wolfson, and Laurence J. Silberstein, shed new light on the central texts and issues of Judaism through their postmodern interpretations. They offer up provocative perspectives on Bible and Midrash; Talmud and Halakhah; Kabbalah; Zionism; the Holocaust; feminism; literature; pedagogy; and liturgy.

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 1996-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827606273

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Borowitz creatively explores his theory of Covenant, linking self to folk and God through the contemporary idiom of relationship.

Author : Peter Ochs
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 2000-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791445341

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This major intellectual response to the leading theologian of liberal Judaism provides a significant indication of future directions in Jewish religious thought.

Author : Marc H. Ellis
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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States that the history of the Jewish people is filled with anguish and suffering. Even today, after the Holocaust, Jews are considered as victims and survivors. The Jewish people are ostracized and condemned for their difficult passage to empowerment in the State of Israel. On the other hand, the Jews' struggle to preserve their values has been shadowed by a betrayal of those values. Contends that in Israel and America, Jewish policies and alliances increasingly resemble those historically used to oppress the Jews. Surveys recent Jewish theology (e.g. Wiesel, Rubenstein, Fackenheim, Greenberg), and calls for a move beyond Holocaust theology to a Jewish theology of liberation which will encompass solidarity with suffering peoples everywhere.

Author : Mark Ellis
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334048583

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Marc Ellis fine book about the future of the Jewish community was first published in 1987. But twenty years on, in the light of recent events in the Middle East and post-September 11, its powerful message of hope, directed towards a people 'poised between Holocaust and empowerment', remains as powerful, apposite, and pressingly relevant as it was before. Ellis begins with two poles: the holocaust and the pain and vision that issue from it. This leads him into ethics, and he highlights the contrast between the depth of Jewish ethical commitment and the paucity of renewal movements within Judaism. The author then addresses all suffering peoples, and the Christian liberation movements active among them, so that the holocaust may be set in a wider context. Against this background, Ellis sees it as essential that the journeys and visions of dissenting Jews - such as Etty Hillesum and Martin Buber - should be re-appraised. An alternative perspective of what it means to be Jewish begins to emerge, and in the final chapter a Jewish theology of liberation is essayed, which is a theology prepared 'to enter the danger zones of contemporary Jewish life', often at some cost.

Author : Marc H. Ellis
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1932792007

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Turmoil still grips the Middle East and fear now paralyzes post-9/11 America. The comforts and challenges of this book are thus as timely as when first published in 1987. With new reflections on the future of Judaism and Israel, Ellis underscores the enduring problem of justice. Ellis' use of liberation theology to make connections between the Holocaust and contemporary communities from the Third World reminds both Jews and oppressed Christians that they share common ground in the experiences of abandonment, suffering, and death. The connections also reveal that Jews and Christians share a common cause in the battle against idolatry--represented now by obsessions for personal affluence, national security, and ethnic survival. According to Ellis, Jews and Christians must never allow the reality of anti-Semitism to become an excuse for evading solidarity with the oppressed peoples--be they African, Asian, Latin American or, especially, Palestinian. --Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and author of God Has a Dream

Author : Neil Gillman
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1580234399

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With clarity and passion, noted theologian Neil Gillman explores the importance of community, symbol and myth in evolution of Jewish thought and reveals extraordinary insights into the purpose of religion, our relationship with God and Jewish identity.