TY - CHAP
T1 - Pluralism out of the sources of Judaism
T2 - the quest for religious pluralism without relativism
AU - Jospe, Raphael
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This chapter argues for the legitimacy of Jewish religious pluralism, citing precedents and conceptions that arise indigenously ‘out of sources of Judaism’. As for the Christian challenge of equating pluralism with relativism, it constructs a paradigm of religious pluralism that avoids moral relativism, while at the same time avoiding the kind of extreme epistemological relativism of radical deconstructionism. As for Jewish precedents, there is ample evidence for both internal and external pluralism in the sources. In his comments on Genesis 33:20 and Exodus 6:9, Rashi cites this verse to justify diverse, internal pluralistic interpretations. Rabbi Yishma'el interpreted this verse as alluding to both internal and external pluralism. Such pluralism, even if it entails a degree of moderate epistemic relativism, does not imply a strong relativistic conception of multiple truths, but of multiple perspectives on the truth, or what the rabbis called the ‘seventy facets of the Torah’.
AB - This chapter argues for the legitimacy of Jewish religious pluralism, citing precedents and conceptions that arise indigenously ‘out of sources of Judaism’. As for the Christian challenge of equating pluralism with relativism, it constructs a paradigm of religious pluralism that avoids moral relativism, while at the same time avoiding the kind of extreme epistemological relativism of radical deconstructionism. As for Jewish precedents, there is ample evidence for both internal and external pluralism in the sources. In his comments on Genesis 33:20 and Exodus 6:9, Rashi cites this verse to justify diverse, internal pluralistic interpretations. Rabbi Yishma'el interpreted this verse as alluding to both internal and external pluralism. Such pluralism, even if it entails a degree of moderate epistemic relativism, does not imply a strong relativistic conception of multiple truths, but of multiple perspectives on the truth, or what the rabbis called the ‘seventy facets of the Torah’.
UR - http:///pluralism_out_of_the_sources_of_judaism_the_quest_for_religious_pluralism_without_relativism.pdf
U2 - 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764098.003.0004
DO - 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764098.003.0004
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SN - 9781906764098
T3 - Liverpool scholarship online
SP - 87
EP - 122
BT - Jewish theology and world religions
A2 - Goshen-Gottstein, Alon
A2 - Korn, Eugene
PB - The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization – The Liverpool University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -