Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I The God of revelation -- CHAPTER 1 The God of Israel -- EQUIVOCALITIES -- "Revelation" -- "God" -- A HISTORY OF "GOD" -- The deity of the Hebrew Scriptures -- Is the God of the Bible believable? -- CHAPTER 2 The God of the philosophers -- THE RABBINIC TURN TO PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENTARY -- THE THEOLOGY OF MAIMONIDES -- GOD THE CREATOR -- "The first mover" -- InfInity -- The universe -- Simplicity -- "The One" -- Analogy -- Semantics -- GOD THE REVEALER -- Telling stories to know the unknowable -- Plato's Timaeus - the story of space -- Maimonides 'Guide - two myths of the Torah -- The Torah as the guide to perfection -- Divine attributes as moral imperatives -- IS THE GOD OF MAIMONIDES BELIEVABLE? -- CHAPTER 3 The God of the theologians -- THE DISCREDITATION OF RATIONALIST THEOLOGY -- MAIMONIDES AS THE BENCHMARK OF JEWISH THEOLOGY -- POST-RAMBAM CRITIQUES OF MAIMONIDES -- Kabbalah -- Imagination versus intellect -- The philosophical critique of Aristotelian reason -- Modern science -- Calculus and infinity -- THE PROBLEMS WITH MAIMONISDES' THEOLOGY -- HERMANN COHEN -- THE PHILOSOPHY OF IMMANUEL KANT -- COHEN'S JEWISH PHILOSOPHY -- BEYOND COHEN -- MARTIN BUBER -- PRSUPPOSITIONS -- From Maimonides -- From Kant -- From Cohen -- THEOLOGY -- The eternal thou -- The dialectic of the two ways of being -- IS THE GOD OF BUBER BELIEVABLE? -- CHAPTER 4 Franz Rosenzweig -- THE GOD OF THE ELEMENTS -- CREATION AS A BRIDGE FROM PHILOSOPHY TO THEOLOGY -- THE GOD OF THE WAYS -- THE GOD OF REVELATION -- CREATION AS REVELATION -- REVELATION AS LOVE -- THE DIALECTIC OF REVELATION -- Monologue -- Question -- The call -- The hearing and the command -- Revelation and beyond -- IS THE GOD OF ROSENZWEIG BELIEVABLE? -- REVIEW -- CHALLENGES -- From ethics.

From the natural sciences -- From history -- From biblical studies -- Evolution -- Source criticism -- SUMMARY -- PART II Is the God of revelation believable? -- CHAPTER 5 The challenges of political ethics - issues of racism and the irrational -- TRUTH TESTS: CONSISTENCY, COHERENCE, AND HISTORICAL FALSIFICATION -- REASONABLE BELIEF RATHER THAN KNOWLEDGE -- THE CHALLENGE OF MODERN ETHICS TO JEWISH THEOLOGY -- MORAL OBJECTIONS TO NORMATIVE RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE -- WHEN YOU CANNOT DO WHAT YOU OUGHT TO DO -- WHEN YOU OUGHT NOT DO WHAT YOU OUGHT TO DO -- THE LOGIC OF ETHICAL CHALLENGES TO REVELATION -- IN THE STRONG SENSE OF REVELATION -- IN THE WEAK SENSE OF DIVINE INSPIRATION -- The example of slavery -- The example of gender -- MORAL RULES AND GUIDES -- THE QUESTION OF RACISM -- THE JEWISH RACE -- RECONSTRUCTING ROSENZWEIG -- THE QUESTION OF IRRATIONALISM -- REVIEW -- TWO INTERPRETATIONS OF CHOSENNESS -- THE LINE BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF -- CRITIQUE AND RECONSTRUCTION -- CHAPTER 6 The challenges of modern science -- REVIEW -- ON THE EXCULUSION OF KABBALAH AND SPINOZA -- PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY - THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT THE UNCRITICAL -- THE CHALLENGE OF MODERN SCIENCE -- PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY - RETHINKING THE WORLD -- CREATION AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY -- CREATION AND JEWISH THEOLOGY -- THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BUBER AND ROSENZWEIG -- AMORALITY AS THE CHALLENGE OF PHYSICS -- The Jewish Aristotelians - necessityversus purpose -- Modern physics and natural philosophy - necessity and contingency -- Quantum mechanics - chance without purpose -- The world of Rosenzweig -- EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY - RETHINKING THE HUMAN -- THE SCIENCES OF THE HUMAN -- CLASSICAL VIEWS OF THE HUMAN -- The Hebrew Scriptures -- The Jewish philosophers -- MODERN VIEWS OF THE HUMAN -- The sciences -- Epistemic qualifications -- The origins of the human -- Critical reflections.

Sight versus hearing -- Ethics and the emotions -- Classification -- Chance, evolution, and purpose -- THE THEOLOGIANS -- Review -- Buber and Rosenzweig -- Human uniqueness -- Rosenzweig's psychology -- Body and soul -- Personality -- The will -- The soul -- Evaluation -- Jewishness -- Believability -- CHAPTER 7 The challenges of modern philosophy - rethinking God -- REVIEW -- SECULAR JUDAISM -- ORTHODOX AND LIBERAL RELIGIOUS JUDAISM -- DOES GOD SPEAK? -- JEWISH PHILOSOPHY -- JEWISH THOLOGY -- THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION - PROOFS THAT GOD EXISTS -- INTRODUCTION -- The Hebrew Scriptures and historical argument -- Midrash and arguments from design -- The modern world of chance -- COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS -- Infinity -- The principle of sufficient reason -- Knowledge as necessity -- Belief and probability -- God and schemata -- Franz Rosenzweig -- ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS -- Background -- The class of "God" -- The argument -- Critique -- The non-perfect God of revelation -- MODREN ARGUMENTS -- Review -- Arguments from religious experience -- The logic of legal evidence and testimony -- Religious experience in the context of Jewish philosophic theology -- Pragmatic arguments -- PROOFS THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST -- OVERVIEW -- THE CRATION PARADOX -- THE CONTENGENCY PARADOX -- THE HUMAN VOLITION PARADOX -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 8 Are the Hebrew Scriptures revealed? -- REVIEW -- THE BIBLE AS A PIOUS FRAUD -- Historical background -- The Documentary Hypothesis -- Historic precedence or the charge of falsification -- IS THE BIBLE BELIEVABLE? -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Index of names -- Index of subjects -- ENGLISH -- GERMAN -- HEBREW.