TY - JOUR
T1 - The melody of the sages
T2 - Does god really have a voice?
AU - Hershkowitz, Isaac
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In The Theology of Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God,1 after describing his attempt to formulate a descriptive theology throughout his publications, Professor Jacob Neusner writes: So much for historical and descriptive theology. What of the constructive kind? It remains to take note of my one effort at constructive theology [. . .] Judaism's Theological Voice: The Melody of the Talmud. To date, I have not found even the correct contemporary starting point for a systematic and also constructive, not merely descriptive, theology for Judaism of the Dual Torah; most work that people label theology turns out to be nothing more than sociology made urgent by exhortation or mere sloganeering. I have not attempted a systematic, constructive theology, and I have not persuaded myself that I am capable of doing so.
AB - In The Theology of Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God,1 after describing his attempt to formulate a descriptive theology throughout his publications, Professor Jacob Neusner writes: So much for historical and descriptive theology. What of the constructive kind? It remains to take note of my one effort at constructive theology [. . .] Judaism's Theological Voice: The Melody of the Talmud. To date, I have not found even the correct contemporary starting point for a systematic and also constructive, not merely descriptive, theology for Judaism of the Dual Torah; most work that people label theology turns out to be nothing more than sociology made urgent by exhortation or mere sloganeering. I have not attempted a systematic, constructive theology, and I have not persuaded myself that I am capable of doing so.
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U2 - 10.1163/157007011x564887
DO - 10.1163/157007011x564887
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SN - 1568-4857
VL - 14
SP - 120
EP - 128
JO - Review of Rabbinic Judaism
JF - Review of Rabbinic Judaism
IS - 1
ER -