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Judaism and Theology: Essays on the Jewish Religion

Addresses some of the most burning questions but also provides surveys of contemporary Jewish religious life in the various communities and of the attitudes of Jewish thinkers to other religious faiths. For the first time a comprehensive account of Halakhic attitudes towards Christianity is presented. The differences in Jewish mystical thought and that of Christianity and other faiths are studied, along with the Jewish view of the relationship of faith to tradition compared with that of other religions.

Norman Solomon reviews ‘Judaism and Theology’ and ‘Rabbinic Thought in the Talmud’

Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle, 10 June 2005. Judaism and Theology: Essays on the Jewish Religion. Louis Jacobs, Vallentine Mitchell, £17.95 (£39.50 HB). Rabbinic Thought in the Talmud. Louis Jacobs, Vallentine Mitchell, £17.95 ... Continue Reading ➨

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Articles Following the Seminar

Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies

Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs

Halakhah and Aggadah: The Modern Conversion Controversy in Light of Louis Jacobs’s Philosophy

What is ‘Modern’ in Modern Orthodoxy?

Theology and Conversion, Converts and Theology – The Picture in Britain

Back to Zechariah Frankel and Louis Jacobs? On Integrating Academic Talmudic Scholarship into Israeli Religious Zionist Yeshivot and the Spectre of the Historical Development of the Halakhah

‘Modern’ Orthodoxy in Antiquity and the Present Day

From Jacobs to the New Materialism: Revelation in Judaism after Metaphysics

Torah as the Word of God

Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Biblical Criticism: Some Reflections on the Importance of Asking the Right Question

Orthodox Judaism in Transition – An Oxymoron?

We Have Reason to Inquire: The Life and Works of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs

Biblical Criticism and Late-Modern Orthodoxy in Israel

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