Publisher's Synopsis
Offers creative interpretations of major Jewish texts and original treatments of significant issues in Jewish theology and ethics. It includes philosophical readings of biblical narratives, analyses of topics in the thought of Maimonides, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and critical and constructive examinations of divine providence, religious anthropology, free will, 9/11, evil, Halakhah and morality, altruism, and the epistemology of religious belief.