Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thinking about Continuity and Disruption
Rabbi Stanley M. Davids
Part One: Biblical Considerations
1. The Disruptive Prophets: Linking Action and Intention
Kristine Henriksen Garroway, PhD
2. 586 BCE: Defeat and the Emergence of Jewish Peoplehood
Jacob L. Wright, PhD
Part Two: Rabbinic Disruptions
3. Christianity: A Pauline Revolution
Rabbi Joshua D. Garroway, PhD
4. Persecution, Martyrdom, and Divine Justice: How the Afterlife Came to Be
Rabbi Candice Levy, PhD
5. “They Are Israel”: Nonbinary Gender Then and Now
Gwynn Kessler, PhD
Part Three: Medieval Constructions
6. The Radical Rationalist: Maimonides Reshapes Rabbinic Discourse
Tamar Ron Marvin, PhD
7. The Zohar Transformation: A New Understanding of Torah, God, and Humanity
Rabbi Lawrence A. Englander, DHL
8. Sabbatianism: Convulsions and Creativity
Rabbi Stanley M. Davids
9. Jewish Thought in the North African Sephardic Diaspora: Continuity and Change
Michal Ohana, PhD
Part Four: Modern Deliberations
10. Haskalah in Berlin: Moses Mendelssohn, Immanuel Kant, and the Foundations of Reform Judaism
Yoav Schaefer
11. Breaking the Chain: The Radical Thought of Rabbi Samuel Holdheim
Michael A. Meyer, PhD
12. Sephardism and Modernity: Jewish Communities in Flux
Rabbi Marc D. Angel, PhD
13. The Pittsburgh Platform of 1885: The American Reform Rabbis’ Declaration of Independence
Rabbi Kari Tuling, PhD
14. Power, Pragmatism, and Peoplehood: Mordecai Kaplan’s Radical American Judaism
Rabbi Michael Marmur, PhD
Part Five: Contemporary Innovations
15. The Breakup: Rethinking American Jewish Literary History
Adam Rovner, PhD
16. Liturgy as an Instrument of Intellectual Change: Between Comfort and Disruption
Rabbi Sonja K. Pilz, PhD
17. Reform Jewry Sings a New Song: Disruptions and Innovations
Cantor Evan Kent, DMA
18. The Gender Revolution: Disruptions of Jewish Feminism
Rabbi Elyse Goldstein
19. Moving Beyond Post-Holocaust Theology: Critical Theory as a New Paradigm
Rabbi Jason Rodich
20. Holocaust Testimony: Listening, Humanizing, and Sacralizing
Stephen D. Smith, PhD
21. Inclusive Judaism: A Vision for the Future
Rabbi Nora Feinstein
Afterword
Leah Hochman, PhD
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