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Jewish Justice - The Contested Limits of Nature, Law, and Covenant (Hardcover)
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Jewish Justice - The Contested Limits of Nature, Law, and Covenant (Hardcover)
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In Jewish Justice David Novak explores the continuing role of
Judaism for crafting ethics, politics, and theology. Drawing on
sources as diverse as the Bible, the Talmud, and ancient, medieval,
and modern philosophy, Novak asserts Judaism's integral place
incommunaldiscourse of the public square. According to Novak,
biblical revelation has universal implicationsathat it is
ultimately God's law to humanity because humans made in God's image
are capable of making intelligent moral choices. The universality
of this claim, however,stands in tension with the particularities
of Jewish monotheism (one God, one people, one law).
Novak'schallenge isforJudaism to capitalize on the way God's law
transcends particularity without destroying difference. Thus it is
as Jews that Jews arecalledto join communitiesacross the faithful
denominations, as well assecular ones,to engage in debates about
the common good. Jewish Justice follows a logical progression from
grounded ethical quandaries to larger philosophicaldebates.Novak
begins by considering the practical issues of capital punishment,
mutilation and torture, corporate crime, the landed status of
communities and nations, civil marriage,and religious marriage. He
next moves to a consideration of theoretical concerns: God's
universal justice, the universal aim of particular Jewish ethics,
human rights andthe image of God, the relation of
post-Enlightenment social contract theory to the recently
enfranchised Jewish community, andthe voicesof Jewish citizens in
secular politics andthe public sphere. Novak also explores the
intersection of universality and particularity by examining the
practice ofinterfaith dialogue among Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
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