Safkanut

All the Orthopraxy and Jewish skepticism you can handle, with a few miscellaneous topics thrown in for fun. Email Me: safkanut@gmail.com

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Shapiro's Limits of Orthodox Theology = Jacobs' Principles of the Jewish Faith?

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Is it just me, or is Marc Shapiro's The Limits of Orthodox Theology essentially a rehashing of Louis Jacobs' Principles of the Jewi...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Kaplan the Bible Critic

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From Mordecai Kaplan's Communings of the Spirit , entry from Sunday, April 21, 1929, 12:30PM. Is it possible that I have made a discover...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Orthodoxy and Pluralism

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Is a pluralistic Orthodoxy possible, or do you think any attempts at real pluralism will lead to further denominationalism, with "plura...
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Pet Peeve From An Argument I Had Today

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Annoying logic: The existence of multiple opinions implies the existence of multiple truths. (Related newsflash: Skeptodox is not a post-mo...

Does the Biblical View of God Bother You?

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James Kugel makes a pretty compelling argument that ancient readers of the Bible viewed God in a completely different manner than we do now....
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Why I Like the Etiological Approach to Tanach

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Hermann Gunkel was a German Protestant OT scholar in the late 19th and early 20th century. One of his key contributions to the study of the ...
Monday, November 19, 2007

Fealty to Gedolim

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I've been listening to a lot of kiruv "how-to" lectures during my commute, and the kiruv pros' lack of logic and sheer ga...
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