The God of the Rabbis
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Description
Rabbinic theology, in the various Midrashim, reveals an intense attentiveness to God as a divine relational subject in the figures of king, a father, a husband, sometime a mother, and a judge. If God is, indeed, a relational subject capable of intentionality and responsiveness seeking a partner, the perfections attributed to him by the philosophers are actually flaws and imperfections from the perspective of Rabbinic theology.
Source Publication
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology
Source Editors/Authors
Steven Kepnes
Publication Date
2020
Recommended Citation
Halbertal, Moshe, "The God of the Rabbis" (2020). Faculty Chapters. 747.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/747
