Jewish Universalism?: The Nations in the Rosh Hashanah Liturgy
Today’s positive relationship with Christians and Christianity challenges the voices of particularism in Jewish tradition. To discern how contemporary Jewish leaders are guiding their communities to think about the place of Jews within the larger human community, this article analyzes commentaries o...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations
[2020]
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Studies in Christian-Jewish relations
Year: 2020, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-20 |
Further subjects: | B
maḥzor (machzor, mahzor)
B Worship B Pluralism B Rosh Hashanah B Universalism B Liturgy B Particularism B High Holy Days B Inclusivism B Gifts and Calling |
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Summary: | Today’s positive relationship with Christians and Christianity challenges the voices of particularism in Jewish tradition. To discern how contemporary Jewish leaders are guiding their communities to think about the place of Jews within the larger human community, this article analyzes commentaries on a selection of Rosh Hashanah prayers from recently published prayer books commonly used in North American congregations. These prayers’ traditional texts themselves engage in a dialectic between universalism and particularism. The commentaries’ responses range along a spectrum, from an embrace of universalism by Reform Jews, to an advocacy also, but not exclusively, for particularism, among the orthodox. |
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ISSN: | 1930-3777 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian-Jewish relations
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.6017/scjr.v15i1.12349 |