Tamar Ross: Constructing Faith

Tamar Ross, H. Tirosh-Samuelson (Editor), A. W. Hughes (Editor)

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Abstract

Tamar Ross is Professor of Jewish Philosophy (Emerita) at Bar-Ilan University. She has written extensively on the Musar movement, the thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the ideology of Mitnagedism, and the relationship of Orthodoxy and feminism. Conversant with classical rabbinic sources and analytic philosophy, she champions the notion of cumulative revelation in pursuit of a non-foundationalist notion of truth, both religious and scientific. Responding to the feminist critique, she articulates an original and constructive Jewish theology sympathetic to the later stages of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language and to complementary motifs in Jewish mysticism. Her philosophy of halakha similarly builds on post-positivist legal theory, demonstrating the transformative influence of women's direct input on a legal system previously managed exclusively by men.
Original languageAmerican English
Place of PublicationLeiden, The Netherlands
PublisherBrill
Number of pages328
ISBN (Print)978-90-0431737-6, 978-9004317369
StatePublished - 2016

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