Jewish liturgical reasoning / Steven Kepnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kepnes, Steven, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Liturgy.

Judaism.

Prayer--Judaism.

Prayer.

Jewish philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title provides an articulation of the philosophical ethical, and theological reasoning of synagogue liturgies. The book uses insights from modern Jewish philosophy together with contemporary hermeneutics, semiotics, and postliberal theology to develop new terms of discourse and a new sensibility for 21st-century Jewish philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction : after postmodernism to liturgical reasoning

Liturgical semiotics : Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem

Liturgical selfhood : Hermann Cohen's Religion of reason

Liturgical time : Franz Rosenzweig's Star of redemption

Liturgical space : in the post-Shoah and Zionist era

Liturgical theology : the semiotics of the preliminary morning service

Epilogue : liturgical truth.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-216) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-029532-5

9786611159115

0-19-804279-5

1-4356-1871-8

1-281-15911-5

OCLC:

922953164