Judaism: Theology

Holiness is a challenge for contemporary Jewish thought. The concept of holiness is crucial to religious discourse in general and to Jewish discour...

In his now classic Two Powers in Heaven, Alan Segal examines rabbinic evidence about early manifestations of the ""two powers"" heresy within Judai...

One cannot think of Judaism without taking some stance relating to Israel's special status, its election. The present collection highlights the cha...

One cannot think of Judaism without taking some stance relating to Israel's special status, its election. The present collection highlights the cha...

The recognition formula, “you/they shall know that I am Yahweh,” is repeated more than seventy times in the book of Ezekiel. And yet, surprisingly,...

In antiquity, “son of god”—meaning a ruler designated by the gods to carry out their will—was a title used by the Roman emperor Augustus and his su...