Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought by Arthur A Cohen

Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought by Arthur A Cohen

A collection of 140 essays by renowned figures on the fundamental concepts, beliefs and movements in historical and contemporary Jewish thought. Charity, chosen people, death, culture, family, freedom, history, love, immortality, myth, prayer, science, tradition and Torah are among the subjects addressed in this handbook of Jewish experience and thought. Renowned contributors include Gershon Cohen, Emmanuel Rackman, Susannah Heschel, Jacob Neusner, Nahum N.Glatzer, Adin Steinsalz, Arthur Waskow and David Hartman.

Arthur A. Cohen was the author of Martin Buber (1959), The Natural and the Supernatural Jew: An Historical and Theological Introduction (1962), The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition (1970), and The Tremendum: A Theological Interpretation of the Holocaust (1981). He also edited the theological writings of Milton Steinberg. An acclaimed novelist, his Artists and Enemies was published posthumously in October 1986. Paul Mendes-Flohr is Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is the editor of a series on German-Jewish literature and cultural history for the University of Chicago Press, and he co-edited one of the seminal works of Jewish studies: The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History (1980). He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and has taught at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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ISBN 13	9780029060407
ISBN 10	0029060400
Title	Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought
Author	Arthur A Cohen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	1988-04-25
Number of pages	1182
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