CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THEOLOGY: A READER.(Review)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June, 1999

CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THEOLOGY: A READER. Edited by ELLIOT N. DORFF and Louis E. NEWMAN. Oxford University Press. 552 pp. $49.95 cloth, $27.95 paper.

An extremely useful collection of twentieth-century Jewish theological writings on such varied topics as the nature of God, creation, revelation, redemption, covenant, law, the Holocaust, and the State of Israel. The authors anthologized are among the most significant Jewish thinkers of our time, including a number of FIRST THINGS contributors (David Novak, Michael Wyschogrod, Jakob J. Petuchowski, Emil Fackenheim, and Peter Ochs) as well as their venerable predecessors (Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Abraham Joshua Heschel, among others).