Jewish Liturgical Reasoning

Name: Jewish Liturgical Reasoning
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ISBN: 9780195313819

ISBN-10: 019531381X

ISBN-13: 9780195313819

Edition: 2007

Authors: Steven Kepnes

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Liturgy, a complex interweaving of word, text, song, and behavior is a central fixture of religious life in the Jewish tradition. It is unique in that it is performed and not merely thought. Because liturgy is performed by a specific group at a specific time and place it is mutable. Thus, liturgical reasoning is always new and understandings of liturgical practices are always evolving. Liturgy is neither preexisting nor static; it is discovered and revealed in every liturgical performance. Jewish Liturgical Reasoning is an attempt to articulate the internal patterns of philosophical, ethical, and theological reasoning that are at work in synagogue liturgies. This book discusses the…

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List price: $86.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.18" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




Introduction: After Postmodernism To Liturgical Reasoning



Liturgical Semiotics: Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem



Liturgical Selfhood: Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason



Liturgical Time: Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption



Liturgical Space: In the Post-Shoah and Zionist Era



Liturgical Theology: The Semiotics of the Preliminary Morning Service



Epilogue: Liturgical Truth