Jewish Theology and World Religions

Alan Brill is the Cooperman/Ross Endowed Professor in Honor of Sister Rose Thering, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey.
Paul B. Fenton is co-director of the Department of Arabic and Hebrew Studies at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, where he is Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature and a Fellow of the Centre de recherche français de Jérusalem (CNRS).
Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman is Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Alon Goshen Gottstein is the founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, and director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought at Bet Morasha, Jerusalem.
Raphael Jospe teaches in the Departments of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Jolene S. Kellner is a reference and periodicals librarian at the University of Haifa
Menachem Kellner is Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa and a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center, Jerusalem.
Eugene Korn is American Director of the Center for Jewish--Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Efrat, where he is co-director of the Institute for Theological Inquiry. He is editor of Meorot: A Forum for Modern Orthodox Discourse.
Stanisław Krajewski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw and Jewish co-chairman of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews.
Ruth Langer is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Boston College and associate director of its Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.
Rori Picker Neiss is the co-editor of Interactive Faith: The Essential Interreligious Community Building Handbook.
David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies as Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is vice president of the Institute on Religion and Public Life (New York).
Avi Sagi is Professor of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University, director of Bar Ilan’s Graduate Program for Hermaneutics and Cultural Studies, and a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem.
Meir Sendor is rabbi of Young Israel of Sharon, Massachusetts, teaches for the Me’ah Programof Boston Hebrew College, and is a member of the Elijah Interfaith Institute’s Think Tank.

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Preface
Eugene Korn

Introduction: Towards a Jewish Theology of World Religions: Framing the Issues
ALON GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN

Part I  Philosophical Perspectives on Jewish Pluralism
1 Jewish Views of World Religions: Four Models
ALAN BRILL
2 Justifying Inter-Religious Pluralism
AVI SAGI
3  Pluralism out of the Sources of Judaism: The Quest for Religious Pluralism without Relativism
RAPHAEL JOSPE
4  Respectful Disagreement: Reply to Raphael Jospe
JOLENE S. KELLNER and MENACHEM KELLNER

            Part II  Judaism and the Other
5 Can Another Religion Be Seen as the Other?
STANISLAW KRAJEWSKI
6  The Violence of the Neutral
MEIR SENDOR
7  Jewish Liturgical Memory and the Non-Jew: Past Realities and Future Possibilities
RUTH LANGER

            Part III  Judaism and World Religions
8  Rethinking Christianity: Rabbinic Positions and Possibilities
EUGENE KORN
9 Maimonides’ Treatment of Christianity and its Normative Implications
DAVID NOVAK
10 The Banished Brother: Islam in Jewish Thought and Faith
PAUL FENTON
11 Encountering Hinduism: Thinking Through Avodah zarah
ALON GOSHEN GOTTSTEIN
12  Judaism and Buddhism: A Jewish Approach to a Godless Religion
JEROME (YEHUDA) GELLMAN

Concluding Reflections
ALON GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN

Index