The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality

Author:   Elliot N. Dorff (Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, American Jewish University) ,  Jonathan K. Crane (Raymond F. Schinazi Junior Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought, Raymond F. Schinazi Junior Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought, Center for Ethics, Emory University)
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Pages:   540
Publication Date:   17 January 2013
Format:   Hardback
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For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike. As the essays in this volume show, the theologians and practitioners of Judaism have a long history of wrestling with moral questions, responding to them in an open, argumentative mode that reveals the strengths and weaknesses of all sides of a question. The Jewish tradition also offers guidance for moral conduct by individuals, communities, and countries and shows how to motivate people to do the good and right thing.The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality is a collection of original essays addressing these topics--historical and contemporary, as well as philosophical and practical--by leading scholars from around the world. The first section of the volume describes the history of the Jewish tradition's moral thought, from the Bible to contemporary Jewish approaches. The second part includes chapters on specific fields in ethics, including the ethics of medicine, business, sex, speech, politics, war, and the environment.

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Author:   Elliot N. Dorff (Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, American Jewish University) ,  Jonathan K. Crane (Raymond F. Schinazi Junior Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought, Raymond F. Schinazi Junior Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought, Center for Ethics, Emory University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.90cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 17.00cm
Weight:   1.089kg
ISBN:  

9780199736065


ISBN 10:   0199736065
Pages:   540
Publication Date:   17 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction - Jonathan K. Crane and Elliot N. Dorff I. Jewish Ethical Theories 1. Introduction: Why Study Jewish Ethics? - Elliot N. Dorff and Jonathan K. Crane 2. Ethical Theory and Practice in the Hebrew Bible - Elaine Goodfriend 3. Ethical Theories in Rabbinic Literature - Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert 4. Ethical Theories in Jewish Mystical Writings - Joseph Dan 5. Ethical Theories Among Medieval Jewish Philosophers - Warren Zev Harvey 6. Spinoza and Jewish Ethics - David Novak 7. Mussar Ethics and Other Nineteenth Century Jewish Ethical Theories - Ira Stone 8. Ethical Theories of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber - Jonathan K. Crane 9. Ethical Theories of Mordecai Kaplan and Abraham Joshua Heschel - Matthew LaGrone 10. Ethical Theories of Abraham Isaac Kook and Joseph B. Soloveitchik - Lawrence Kaplan 11. Ethical Implications of the Holocaust - Michael Berenbaum 12. Jewish Ethical Theories in the Reform Movement - Michael Marmur 13. Jewish Ethical Theories in the Conservative Movement - Shai Cherry 14. Jewish Ethical Theories in the Orthodox Movement - David Shatz 15. Jewish Ethical Theories in the Reconstructionist Movement - David Teutsch 16. Feminist Jewish Ethical Theories - Judith Plaskow 17. Postmodern Jewish Ethical Theories - Martin Kavka II. Topics in Jewish Morals 18. Introduction - Elliot N. Dorff and Jonathan K. Crane 19. Bioethics: The Beginning of Life - Elliot N. Dorff 20. Bioethics: The End of Life - Daniel Sinclair 21. Bioethics: The Distribution of Health Care - Aaron Mackler 22. Bioethics: Current and Future Issues in Genetics - Laurie Zoloth 23. Jewish Business Ethics - Barry Leff 24. Jewish Sexual Ethics - Danya Ruttenberg 25. Jewish Environmental Ethics - Arthur Waskow 26. Jewish Animal Ethics - Aaron Gross 27. Jewish Ethics of Speech - Alyssa Gray 28. Jewish Political Ethics in America - Jill Jacobs 29. Jewish Political Ethics in Israel - Reuven Hammer 30. Judaism and Criminal Justice - Laurie Levenson 31. Jewish Ethics and War - Asa Kasher List of Abbreviations Biblical, Rabbinic, and Medieval Sources Index Subject Index

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Every serious theological library should have a copy of this. John Turnbull, New Directions


Every serious theological library should have a copy of this. * John Turnbull, New Directions * an eminently useful anthology * Emily Filler, Journal of Jewish Studies * Every serious theological library should have a copy of this. There is a huge amount that all Christians can learn from the Jewish moral tradition, and this provides a good range of material. ... Students and pastors alike would do well to pay attention to the material in this book. * John Turnbull, New Directions *


The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality addresses what has long been a major lacuna in the field of Jewish studies. No one who studies the history of Judaism would deny that ethics has always occupied a central place in Jewish thought and practice... Elliot Dorff and Jonathan Crane have given us the most definitive and encyclopedic presentation of Jewish ethics ever assembled. --Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics


Every serious theological library should have a copy of this. There is a huge amount that all Christians can learn from the Jewish moral tradition, and this provides a good range of material. ... Students and pastors alike would do well to pay attention to the material in this book. John Turnbull, New Directions an eminently useful anthology Emily Filler, Journal of Jewish Studies Every serious theological library should have a copy of this. John Turnbull, New Directions


Author Information

Elliot N. Dorff is Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at American Jewish University, Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law, Chair of the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and a Past President of the Society of Jewish Ethics. Jonathan K. Crane is the Raymond F. Schinazi Junior Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory University's Center for Ethics.

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