The Unfolding Tradition

Résumé du livre

The Unfolding Tradition: Jewish Law After Sinai presents different approaches to understanding how Jewish law should be interpreted and applied in our time, as articulated by leading rabbis of the Conservative movement. The book includes readings by Zacharias Frankel, Solomon Schechter, Mordecai Kaplan, Robert Gordis, Jacob Agus, Abraham Joshua Heschel, David M. Gordis, Louis Jacobs, Joel Roth, Neil Gillman, Edward Feld, Alana Suskin, Raymond Scheindlin and Gordon Tucker, as well as theorists on the right and the left of the Conservative movement. Teh book also compares Jewish and American law, and asks questions about the nature of legal systems, the relationship between law and religion, and the evolution of law.