5. Divine Hiddenness and Human Input: The Potential Contribution of a Postmodern View of Revelation to Yitz Greenberg’s Holocaust Theology: the potential contribution of a postmodern view of revelation to Yitz Greenberg's Holocaust theology

Tamar Ross

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Abstract

The challenges that biblical criticism and the atrocities of the Holocaust pose, respectively, to traditional notions of revelation and theodicy are arguably the two greatest obstacles of our age to commonly accepted notions of Orthodox Jewish belief. Both involve the confrontation of meta-physical assertions with contrary empiric evidence of such scope or magni-tude that all the usual tactics of religious apologetics appear inadequate. In the following essay, I would like to point to certain commonalities between an approach that I have been developing to the first issue and the response that Greenberg has been developing with regard to the second. I will then propose that some shortcomings in Greenberg’s position (which he himself acknowledges) might be overcome if he were to adopt the implications of this parallelism in full.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationYitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy
Subtitle of host publicationThe Road Not Taken
EditorsAdam Ferziger, Steven Bayme, Miri Freud-Kandel
Place of PublicationBoston, MA
PublisherBoston : Academic Studies Press
Chapter6
Pages107-128
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)1-61811-615-0
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

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