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  title info:
    title: Ethical monotheism
    sub title: a philosophy of Judaism
  name:
    name part: Benor, Ehud
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 299 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The term Ethical Monotheism is an important marker in Judaism's tumultuous transition into the modern era. The term emerged in the context of culture wars concerning the question of whether or not Jews could or should become emancipated citizens of modern European states. It appeared in arguments whether or not Judaism could be considered a religion of reason, a symbolic, motivational representation of a universal morality, and in debates about whether or not Judaism could or should reform itself into a religion of reason. This book is both a decisive departure from such discussions and an attempt to add a further, post-modern, statement to their ongoing development. As departure, it refuses to take for granted a philosophical conception of religion of reason as the standard for ethical monotheism according to which Judaism was to be evaluated or reformed. As continuation, the book undertakes a phenomenology of Jewish modes of ethical religiosity that allows it to inquire what kind of ethical monotheism Judaism might be. Through sophisticated analysis of select "snapshots," or "fragments of a hologram," guided by a robust theory of religion, the author discloses Judaic ethical monotheism as an ongoing wrestling with the meaning of justice. By closely examining five main "snapshots" of this long process, the Bible, rabbinic Judaism, Maimonides, the Zohar and the modern philosophers, Buber and Levinas, the author offers his own constructive philosophy of Judaism and his own distinctive philosophy of religion.
  note: Ehud Benor.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Jewish ethics
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion and ethics
  subject:
    topic: Monotheism
  subject:
    topic: God (Judaism)
  subject:
    topic: Jewish philosophy
  classification: BJ1285.2 .B465 2018
  classification: 296.3/6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge Jewish studies series
  identifier: 9781138578685
  identifier: 1138578681
  identifier: 9781351263962
  identifier: 135126396X
  identifier: 2017041972
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170831
    record change date: 20180301081402.0
    record identifier: in00003914269