Tradition vs Traditionalism Contemporary Perspectives in Jewish Thought 1st Edition by Avi Sagi ISBN 9401206422 9789401206426

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ISBN 10: 9401206422

ISBN 13: 9789401206426

Author: Avi Sagi 

This book is a first attempt to examine the thought of key contemporary Jewish thinkers on the meaning of tradition in the context of two models. The classic model assumes that tradition reflects lack of dynamism and reflectiveness, and the present’s unqualified submission to the past. This view, however, is an image that the modernist ethos has ascribed to the tradition so as to remove it from modern existence. In the alternative model, a living tradition emerges as open and dynamic, developing through an ongoing dialogue between present and past.
The Jewish philosophers discussed in this work—Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, David Hartman, and Eliezer Goldman—ascribe compelling canonic status to the tradition, and the analysis of their thought discloses the tension between these two models. The book carefully traces the course they have plotted along the various interpretations of tradition through their approach to Scripture and to Halakhah.

Table of contents:

ONE Returning to Tradition: Paradox or Challenge
PART ONE The Tense Encounter with Modernity
TWO Soloveitchik: Jewish Thought Confronts Modernity
THREE Compartmentalization: From Ernst Simon to Yeshayahu Leibowitz
PART TWO The Harmonic Encounter with Modernity
FOUR Religious Commitment in a Secularized World: Eliezer Goldman
FIVE David Hartman: Renewing the Covenant
PART THREE Between Old and New: Judaism as Interpretation
SIX Scripture in the Thought of Leibowitz and Soloveitchik
SEVEN Halakhah in the Thought of Leibowitz and Soloveitchik
EIGHT Eliezer Goldman: Judaism as Interpretation 

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