Acknowledgments
Foreword
Julia Annas
Introduction
Geoffrey D. Claussen, Alexander Green, and Alan L. Mittleman
1. Biblical Literature
Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi
2. Philo of Alexandria
Carlos Lévy
3. Titus Flavius Josephus
Clifford Orwin
4. Rabbinic Literature
Deborah Barer
5. Bah¿ya Ibn Paquda
Diana Lobel
6. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Sarah Pessin
7. Maimonides
Kenneth Seeskin
8. Elazar of Worms
Joseph Isaac Lifshitz
9. Nämanides
Jonathan Jacobs
10. The Zohar
Eitan P. Fishbane
11. Gersonides
Alexander Green
12. ¿asdai Crescas
Roslyn Weiss
13. Joseph Albo
Shira Weiss
14. Isaac Arama
Baruch Frydman-Kohl
15. Moses Cordovero
Eugene D. Matanky
16. Baruch Spinoza
Heidi M. Ravven
17. Moses ¿ayyim Luzzatto
Patrick Benjamin Koch
18. Moses Mendelssohn
Elias Sacks
19. Menah¿em Mendel Lefin
Harris Bor
20. ¿ayyim of Volozhin
Esti Eisenmann
21. Nah¿man of Bratslav
Shaul Magid
22. Isaac Bekhor Amarachi
Katja smid
23. Israel Salanter
Sarah Zager
24. Simh¿ah Zissel Ziv
Geoffrey D. Claussen
25. Hermann Cohen
Shira Billet
26. Abraham Isaac Kook
Don Seeman
27. Martin Buber
William Plevan
28. Mordecai Kaplan
Matthew LaGrone
29. Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
Esther Solomon
30. Joseph Soloveitchik
Yonatan Y. Brafman
31. Hannah Arendt
Ned Curthoys
32. Emmanuel Levinas
Richard A. Cohen
33. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Einat Ramon
34. Jewish Feminism
Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi
35. Jewish Environmentalism
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Afterword
Alan L. Mittleman
List of Contributors
Index

Geoffrey D. Claussen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Lori and Eric Sklut Scholar in Jewish Studies, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Elon University. He is the author of Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar, also published by SUNY Press. Alexander Green is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History, also published by SUNY Press. Alan L. Mittleman is the Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of Does Judaism Condone Violence? Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience.