Creation, Peoplehood, Redemption
This intensive seminar, grounded in classical and contemporary Jewish sources and texts, will examine the relationship between creation, the meaning of peoplehood (both Jewish and general), and the redemption of humanity and the cosmos in Jewish thought. Was humanity created along ethnic, cultural, and political lines or is the division we recognize today a departure from our original being? Is plurality or unity more congenial for our human nature? How did Judaism revolutionize the ancient world in opposition to both more imperialistic and more pluralistic worldviews?
Texts include the biblical narratives of creation and the Tower of Babel, select passages from the Talmud, medieval thinkers like Maimonides, and modern religious figures like Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Jonathan Sacks.
This reader was developed by Rabbi Mark Gottlieb.
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Creation, Peoplehood, Redemption