Product Details
ISBN: 9781934843925
Category: General
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 2010-04-16
Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Country of origin: United States
Pages: 235
Pagination: 217 pages
Dimensions (mm): 234x156x14mm
Weight: 467g
Judaism In A Post-Halakhic Age
Judaism in a Post-Halakhic Age tackles the following questions: What is Halakhah, and what role has it played in the creative survival of the Jewish people for two millennia? Why is Halakhah no longer capable of functioning as it has until now? What sort of polity and religious culture can be recommended to replace the Halakhic tradition in an era of freedom, democracy, scientific research and religious pluralism? The author, however, out of his great respect for the Halakhic culture, asks what it can still contribute to Jewish civilisation and the advance of a united humanity.