Essays on Modern Jewish Theology (Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion)

This essay collection is devoted to critically examining the history and development of Jewish theology as it occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bringing together leading scholars of Jewish theology and philosophy, this volume demonstrates just how essential the writing of Jewish theology was for modern Jewish thought and how integral it has been to what is known as the Wissenschaft des Judentums, the critical, academic study of Jewish history and culture. Each of the chapters addresses either a particular modern Jewish theologian or an aspect of modern Jewish theology, with the volume as a whole making the case that Jewish theology is a field ripe for new scholarly inquiry.