Tamar Ross : : constructing faith / / edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes.

• Superior document: Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers, Volume 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, 1950-; Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Library of contemporary Jewish philosophers ; Volume 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Tamar Ross is Professor of Jewish Philosophy (Emerita) at Bar-Ilan University. She has written extensively on the Musar movement, the thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the ideology of Mitnagedism, and the relationship of Orthodoxy and feminism. Conversant with classical rabbinic sources and analytic philosophy, she champions the notion of cumulative revelation in pursuit of a non-foundationalist notion of truth, both religious and scientific. Responding to the feminist critique, she articulates an original and constructive Jewish theology sympathetic to the later stages of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language and to complementary motifs in Jewish mysticism. Her philosophy of halakha similarly builds on post-positivist legal theory, demonstrating the transformative influence of women's direct input on a legal system previously managed exclusively by men.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Tamar Ross: An Intellectual Portrait / Ronit Irshai -- The Cognitive Value of Religious Truth Statements: Rabbi A. I. Kook and Postmodernism / Tamar Ross -- The Word of God Contextualized: Successive Hearings and the Decree of History / Tamar Ross -- Religious Belief in a Postmodern Age / Tamar Ross -- Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Feminism / Tamar Ross -- Interview with Tamar Ross / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Select Bibliography.