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Essays on Modern Jewish Theology
Series: - Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion, Volume: 12
This essay collection is devoted to critically examining the history and development of Jewish theology as it occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bringing together leading scholars of Jewish theology and philosophy, this volume demonstrates just how essential the writing of Jewish theology was for modern Jewish thought and how integral it has been to what is known as the Wissenschaft des Judentums, the critical, academic study of Jewish history and culture. Each of the chapters addresses either a particular modern Jewish theologian or an aspect of modern Jewish theology, with the volume as a whole making the case that Jewish theology is a field ripe for new scholarly inquiry.
Samuel J. Kessler is Harry Lyons Chair in Judaic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of The Formation of the Modern Rabbi: The Life and Times of the Viennese Scholar and Preacher Adolf Jellinek (Brown Judaic Studies, 2022) and co-editor (with George Y. Kohler) of Modern Jewish Theology: The First One Hundred Years, 1835–1935 (JPS/Nebraska, 2023).
George Y. Kohler is Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Director of the Joseph Carlebach Institute at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1820–1880): The Foundation of an Academic Discipline (De Gruyter, 2019) and Reading Maimonides’ Philosophy in 19th Century Germany: The Guide to Religious Reform (Springer, 2012).
George Y. Kohler is Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Director of the Joseph Carlebach Institute at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1820–1880): The Foundation of an Academic Discipline (De Gruyter, 2019) and Reading Maimonides’ Philosophy in 19th Century Germany: The Guide to Religious Reform (Springer, 2012).
This book is of intererst to Jewish Studies scholars, rabbis, undergraduate and graduate students, and teachers of Jewish Studies at the university level.