Broadening the Boundaries of Revelation and Authority
Published January 4, 2017
Benjamin D. Sommer, Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition, Yale University Press (New Haven & London, 2016), 186.
Sommer, Revelation, 247-8.
Sommer, Revelation, 248.
Sommer, Revelation, 126.
An excellent survey of Borowitz’s writings, including his approach to the authority of Scripture, can be found in Eugene B. Borowitz, Studies in the Meaning of Judaism (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2002).
See Rachel Adler, Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1998).
See, among his other great works, Leo Baeck, The Essence of Judaism (New York: Schocken, 1948).
Sommer, Revelation, 129.
For a taste of Buber’s approach to the Bible, deeply embedded in the text but resistant to any traditional doctrinaire stance, see Martin Buber, On the Bible: Eighteen Studies, Nahum N. Glatzer (ed.) (New York: Schocken, 1968).
For Aaron’s treatment of the Decalogue, a theme central to Sommer’s work, see David H. Aaron, Etched in Stone: The Emergence of the Decalogue, (New York: T & T Clark, 2006).
See Jakob Josef Petuchowski, Heirs of the Pharisees (New York: Basic Books, 1970).
Sommer, Revelation, 22.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, “Protestant Renewal: A Jewish View” [1963], in The Insecurity of Freedom (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966): 171.
Sommer, Revelation, 203.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, God In Search of Man (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1955), 262.
