Jewish Models of Revelation

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14 - Jewish Models of Revelation

from Part IV - Contemporary Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2020

Alan Brill

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Steven Kepnes

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Steven Kepnes: Affiliation:
Colgate University, New York

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In this paper, I present a range of contemporary Jewish theological approaches to revelation with the aim of highlighting an array of opinions for beginning a discussion of a Jewish theology of revelation. I use models in theology because a “models approach” helps one place the thinkers into conceptual rubrics loosely based on the models of the Catholic theologian Avery Dulles. We discuss seven different models of Jewish Revelation. (1) the historic event model (2) the dialectic model (3) the mystical model (4) the Verbal model (5) the human potential model (6) the negative theology model and the (7) Hermenutical model

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Revelation Theological Models Avery Dulles Hermenutics Historicity

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Information: The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology , pp. 316 - 343

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108233705.014 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2020

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