A Jewish Biography of God Same as PRO 6104y . Beginning with the Bible and ending with modern thinkers, we will examine the different ways in which the Jewish people have understood and related to God. Emphasis will also be placed upon how cultural shifts, historical events, and scientific discoveries influenced our view of God and the Scriptures. Designed to enable rabbinical students to formulate their own personal vision of God, and God s meaning in their lives. Open to Rabbinical School Seminar II students only.
Revelation occurs throughout the Bible.
Readings will be drawn from traditional Jewish sources with complementary non-Jewish sources which will help illuminate the problems. Open to Rabbinical School Seminar II students only. Section 3 Same as PRO 6104y . Mutuality, dialogue, encounter, guilt, obligation and rupture all go to make up the relationship between one human and another. We will closely examine some of the work of the early twentieth century figure Martin Buber, and the contemporary French thinker Emmanuel Levinas, both of whom articulated philosophies describing how our meeting with others forms our sense of self, our ethics, our spiritual lives and our knowledge of God.