Between Revelation and Authority

Authors

  • Valeriya V. Sleptsova Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. Goncharnaya Str. 12/1, Moscow 109240, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21146/2587-683X-2018-2-2-146-154

Keywords:

biblical criticism, Heschel, Judaism, Jewish theology, Oral Tora, Revelation, Rosenzweig, philosophy of Judaism

Abstract

The rewiev is devoted to 2015 year published B.D. Sommer's book «Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition». Sommer analyses and interpretes texts of Exodus 19–24 and some more texts of Tora. He analyses postbiblical Jewish theological and philosophical texts by using his theory about participatory theory of revelation for effective co-existence of biblical scholarship and observant Judaism. The author of review critiques some of Sommer's ideas.

Author Biography

  • Valeriya V. Sleptsova, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. Goncharnaya Str. 12/1, Moscow 109240, Russian Federation

    PhD in Philosophy, Research Fellow

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Published

2019-01-10

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2018): Religion and Revelation

Section

REVIEWS

How to Cite

Between Revelation and Authority. (2019). Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches, 2(2), 146-154. https://doi.org/10.21146/2587-683X-2018-2-2-146-154