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    Abraham Joshua Heschel's Theology of Judaism and the Rewriting of Jewish Intellectual History
    Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 17 (2): 207-238. 2009.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel's oeuvre deals with the continuum of Jewish religious consciousness from the biblical and rabbinic periods through the kabbalistic and Hasidic ones with regard to God's concern for humanity. The goal of this study is to show how such a “Nachmanidean” reading has partially displaced the discontinuous “Maimonidean” reading promoted by Yehezkel Kaufman, Ephraim Urbach, and Gershom Scholem. The result is that Heschel's understanding of the development of Jewish theologizing is…Read more
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    Judaism and Christian Beginnings
    with Samuel Sandmel
    Journal of the American Oriental Society 101 (4): 460. 1981.
  • Brill Online Books and Journals
    with Isaac B. Gottlieb, Brayton Polka, Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Steven Kepnes, and Dov Schwartz
    Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 2 (1). 1993.
  • Working Warfare and its Restrictions in the Jewish Tradition
    Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 9 (1): 43-63. 2002.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:WORKING WARFARE AND ITS RESTRICTIONS IN THE JEWiSH TRADITION Reuven Kimelman Brandeis University The test case for any political theory of checks and balances is war. It also tests the outer limits of the ethical deployment of power. I. Types of Wars The Jewish ethics of war focuses on two issues: its legitimation and its conduct. The Talmud classifies wars according to their source oflegitimation. Biblically mandated wars are termed…Read more