The Routledge Companion to Jewish Philosophy

Editors’ Introduction

Part I: God

1.   The Existence of God | Joshua Rasmussen

2.   Negative Theology: On Apophaticism, Analytic Jewish Philosophy, and Wittgensteinian Themes | Filippo Casati

3.   God and Infinity | Gary Rosenkrantz

Part II: Humanity

4.   Body and Soul | Aaron Segal

5.   Afterlife and Eschatology | Cole Aronson

Part III: From God to Us

6.   The Problem of Evil | Michael Harris 

7.   Free Will and Providence| Kenneth Boyce

8.   Revelation | Sam Fleischacker

9.   Prophecy | Benjamin Pollock

Part IV: From Us to God

10.  Sacrifices | Shlomo Zuckier

11.  Repentance | Daniel Rynhold

12.  Liturgy: Liturgical Truth: Proclamation, Confirmation, Testimony | Steven Kepnes

Part V: Jewish Mysticism

13.  Mysticism and Rationalism | Jonathan Dauber

14.  Tzimtzum | Olla Solomyak

15.  Sefirot and Philosophy | James Diamond

16. Hassidism & Philosophy: The Return to Nothingness | Yitzhak Melamed

Part VI: Faith and Reason

17.  Miracles | Alexander Green

18.  Doctrines and Dogmas | Seth Kadish

19.  Judaism and Science | Shoaib Mailk

20.  Reasons for Commandments | David Shatz

Part VII: Judaism and Normativity

21.  Character and Musar | Geoffrey D. Claussen and Christian B. Miller

22. God and Morality | Alex Ozar

23.  Halakhah and Morality | Yonatan Brafman

24.  The Metaphysics of Halakhah: Halakhic Naturalism vs. Halakhic Non-Naturalism| Israel Cohen

Part VIII: Judaism and Politics

25.  Antisemitism, Philosophy, and Jewish Philosophy| Sol Goldberg

26.  The Philosophy of Antisemitism: Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Theology | Samuel Lebens

27.  Philosophy of Zionism | Daniel Statman and Yitzhak Benbaji

Part IX: Judaism and Other Faiths

28.  Pluralism and Exclusivism | Barry Kleinberg

29.  Jews, non-Jews, Converts | Mordechai Miller & Menachem Kellner 

Part X: Times and Trends

30. Philosophical Themes in the Tanakh: The Idea of Encounter | Miriam Feldmann Kaye

31. Jewish Philosophy in Antiquity: Philo of Alexandria among his Philosophical Peers | Sharon Weisser

32.  Medieval Jewish Philosophy | Peter Adamson & Sarah Pessin

33.  Early Modern Jewish Philosophy | Dan Frank

34.  Continental Jewish Philosophy | Tamra Wright

35.  Analytic Jewish Philosophy | Dustin Crummett

36.  Post-Holocaust Theology and its Critical Reception | Michael Morgan

37.  Feminist Jewish Philosophy: Universal Reasoning in a Doubly Parochial mode | Tamar Ross

Biography

Daniel Rynhold is currently Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University, where he has been professor of Jewish philosophy since 2007. Prior to this, he spent six years at the department of theology and religious studies, King’s College, London. He has published many articles and books in Jewish philosophy, including Nietzsche, Soloveitchik, and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy (2018) (co-authored with Michael J. Harris) and An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy (2009).

Tyron Goldschmidt is a lecturer at the University of Lucerne, and was previously a Philosophy Professor at the University of Rochester and Wake Forest University. He has published many academic articles and books in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics and the history of philosophy, including Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, 2017, with Scott Stapleford). He has a more practical day job as a software engineer, and most of his work is in TypeScript, Python, oil and acrylic.

"This excellent volume is a most welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on Jewish philosophy. It is notable for the breadth of the subjects it covers and for the outstanding contributors who write on them. The anthology ranges from standard topics such as the problem of evil to newer topics such as feminist Jewish philosophy. It also covers specifically Jewish topics such as tzimtzum and halakhah. The volume therefore serves as an exceptionally good introduction to the great Jewish tradition of philosophy and also contributes to the on-going development of that tradition by those expert in it." -- Eleonore Stump, Saint Louis University, USA.

"The impressive size of this volume is yet outmatched by the masterful comprehensiveness of topics and variety of methodological approaches.There has never been anything like this in the field of Jewish Philosophy, with chapters ranging from excellent to brilliant, authored by the best of the best in their fields. With praise to the Editors of this volume for putting contemporary Jewish philosophy solidly on the map for philosophy today." -- Jerome Yehuda Gellman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.