Heavenly Torah: As Refracted through the Generations

<p>Known most widely for his role in the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s, Abraham Joshua Heschel made major scholarly contributions to the fields of biblical studies, rabbinics, medieval Jewish philosophy, Hasidism, and mysticism. Yet his most ambitious scholarly achievement, his three-volume study of Rabbinic Judaism, is only now appearing in English. Heschel's great insight is that the world of rabbinic thought can be divided into two types or schools, those of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael, and that the historic disputes between the two are based on fundamental differences over the nature of revelation and religion. Furthermore, this disagreement constitutes a basic and necessary ongoing polarity within Judaism between immanence and transcendence, mysticism and rationalism, neo-Platonism and Aristotelianism. Heschel then goes on to show how these two fundamental theologies of revelation may be used to interpret a great number of topics central to Judaism.</p>

Heavenly Torah: As Refracted Through the Generations

Religion & Spirituality

Heschel, Abraham Joshua

Tucker, Gordon

Levin, Leonard

Judaism

Continuum Intl Pub Group

<p>Gathering a wealth of dispersed material, some previously published and some new to print, Torah for Its Intended Purpose comprises twenty-one articles in a breadth of themes, from theology and exegesis to homiletics and Jewish law, Israel and the Jewish world, and their relation to the larger world. Diverse in genre, the essays, sermons, reviews—and one groundbreaking, dissenting responsum—chart a course that is scholarly and spiritual, yet engaged in social activism as well.</p>

Torah for Its Intended Purpose: Selected Writings (1988–2013)

Christian Books & Bibles

KTAV Publishing House

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