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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Novak, is a Jewish theologian, ethicist, and scholar of Jewish philosophy and law . He is an ordained Conservative rabbi and holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies as Professor of the Study of Religion and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto since 1997. His areas of interest are Jewish theology, Jewish ethics and biomedical ethics, political theory , and Jewish-Christian relations.
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Published Works
- The Sublime Frequencies of New Old Media (2011) (62)
- The election of Israel : the idea of the chosen people (1995) (61)
- Natural law in Judaism (1998) (51)
- Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue (2014) (50)
- COSMOPOLITANISM, REMEDIATION, AND THE GHOST WORLD OF BOLLYWOOD (2010) (42)
- The Jewish Social Contract: An Essay in Political Theology (2009) (31)
- 2·5×6 metres of space: Japanese music coffeehouses and experimental practices of listening (2007) (29)
- Covenantal Rights: A Study in Jewish Political Theory (2000) (29)
- Jewish Social Ethics (1992) (28)
- Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Jewish Justification (1992) (28)
- Christianity In Jewish Terms (2000) (27)
- Buber’s Critique of Heidegger (1985) (27)
- Solder man (2003) (22)
- The Election of Israel: The Idea of the Chosen People (1995) (21)
- Is the God of the Philosophers That Which Nothing Greater Can be Conceived (2006) (18)
- Natural Law and Judaism (2014) (17)
- The Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism: The Idea of Noahide Law (1983) (16)
- Law and theology in Judaism (1974) (15)
- The Sanctity of Human Life (2007) (14)
- Response to Anver M. Emon’s “Islamic Natural Law Theories” (2014) (10)
- Response to Matthew Levering’s “Christians and Natural Law” (2014) (10)
- Bioethics and the contemporary Jewish community. (1990) (9)
- Zionism and Judaism: A New Theory (2015) (9)
- Listening to Kamagasaki (2010) (9)
- The Arts of Gentrification: Creativity, Cultural Policy, and Public Space in Kamagasaki (2019) (8)
- Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian (2005) (8)
- Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism: A Historical and Constructive Study of the Noahide Laws (2011) (8)
- The Theology of Nahmanides Systematically Presented (1992) (8)
- Law: Religious or Secular? (2000) (7)
- Leo Strauss and Judaism : Jerusalem and Athens critically revisited (1996) (7)
- Suicide and Morality. (1976) (7)
- Between Tradition and Culture: The Dialectics Of Modern Jewish Religion And Identity (1994) (6)
- The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment (2004) (6)
- The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era (2012) (6)
- The Human Person as the Image of God (1999) (6)
- Jewish-Christian Dialogue (1992) (5)
- IS NATURAL LAW A BORDER CONCEPT BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY (2004) (5)
- Avoiding Charges of Legalism and Antinomianism in Jewish‐Christian Dialogue (2000) (5)
- DEFENDING NIEBUHR FROM HAUERWAS (2012) (5)
- Hermann Cohen on State and Nation (2005) (4)
- From Marxism to Judaism: The Collected Essays of Will Herberg (1989) (4)
- THE UNIVERSALITY OF JEWISH ETHICS: A Rejoinder to Secularist Critics (2008) (4)
- Gentiles in rabbinic thought (2006) (4)
- The Election Of Israel (1995) (4)
- Exploring Jewish Ethics (1990) (4)
- Project Fukushima! Performativity and the Politics of Festival in Post-3/11 Japan (2017) (4)
- Dialogue and Disagreement: Franz Rosenzweig's Relevance to Contemporary Jewish-Christian Understanding. Ronald H. Miller (1991) (4)
- A Jewish Theory of Human Rights (2011) (4)
- Response to Martha Nussbaum's a Right to Marry (2010) (4)
- Response To the Desire of the Nations (1998) (3)
- On Freud's theory of law and religion. (2016) (3)
- Before Revelation: The Rabbis, Paul, and Karl Barth (1991) (3)
- The Jewish Social Contract (2017) (3)
- A Jewish Argument for Socialized Medicine (2003) (3)
- THE QUEST FOR THE JEWISH JESUS (1988) (3)
- Judaism and contemporary bioethics. (1979) (3)
- Modern Responsa: 1800 to the Present (1996) (3)
- The Theopolitics of Abraham Joshua Heschel (2009) (2)
- Homosexuality: A Case Study in Jewish Ethics (2008) (2)
- Oliver O'Donovan's Critique of Autonomy (2008) (2)
- Ethics of Responsibility: Pluralistic Approaches to Covenantal Ethics (1999) (2)
- Christianity and Human Rights: The Judaic foundation of rights (2010) (2)
- Karl Barth on Divine Command: A Jewish Response (2001) (2)
- Theology, Science, and Human Uniqueness: A Response to Wentzel van Huyssteen (2010) (2)
- Jewish Ethics and Natural Law (1996) (2)
- Revealed Law and Democracy (2004) (2)
- Athens and Jerusalem (2019) (2)
- The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics: Introduction (2008) (1)
- Novak, "Jewish-Christian Dialogue" Charlesworth, "Jews and Christians" (1993) (1)
- The Role of Dogma in Judaism (1988) (1)
- To be treated or not to be treated. (1992) (1)
- Creation and the End of Days Judaism and Scientific Cosmology : Proceedings of the 1984 Meeting of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy (1986) (1)
- MORDECAI KAPLAN'S REJECTION OF ELECTION (1995) (1)
- Natural Law and Jewish Philosophy (2011) (1)
- The Spirit of Jewish History (2012) (1)
- Spinoza and the Doctrine of the Election of Israel (1997) (1)
- Judaism and Natural Law (1998) (1)
- 5. The Enlightenment Project, Spinoza, and the Jews (2011) (1)
- Aesthetics and Art (2012) (1)
- For this Question, a Responsum (1990) (1)
- Christian Reflection on the Holocaust (1996) (1)
- Comparative Theology and Scriptural Reasoning : A Muslim ’ s Approach to Interreligious Learning (2018) (1)
- Is the use of data from Nazi medical experiments justifiable or not? (2020) (1)
- The Election of Israel: Hermann Cohen's concept of election (1995) (0)
- The Election of Israel: Preface (1995) (0)
- What Is the Connection Between the Holocaust and the State of Israel (2015) (0)
- Jew, Yes; Gentile, Yes; Quasi-Jew, No (1988) (0)
- Chapter III. God and Covenanted Community (2009) (0)
- Natural Law in Judaism: Preface (1998) (0)
- Jewish Theology and International Society (2021) (0)
- Maimonides's View of Christianity (1992) (0)
- Chapter One Formulating the Jewish Social Contract (2005) (0)
- A Rejoinder to Secularist Critics (2016) (0)
- Words about Recommended Books on Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Jewish Justification (2006) (0)
- UNIVERSAL MORAL LAW IN THE THETHEOLOGY OF HERMANN COHEN (1981) (0)
- The retrieval of the biblical doctrine (1995) (0)
- George Hunsinger, Ed. Karl Barth: Post-Holocaust Theologian? (2019) (0)
- Chapter 8. The Jewish Social Contract in Secular Public Policy (2009) (0)
- Should Jews Proselytize (1979) (0)
- 9 Judaism And Cosmopolitanism (2009) (0)
- God: Divine immanence (2012) (0)
- Reason as a Paradigm in Jewish Philosophy (2012) (0)
- What is a Person? Realities, Constructs, Illusions. By John M. Rist (2021) (0)
- On Homosexuality: To Robert Schwartz (1980) (0)
- The Election of Israel: Spinoza and his challenge (1995) (0)
- Chapter 5. Kingship and Secularity (2009) (0)
- Chapter VII. Human Persons and Covenanted Community (2009) (0)
- Chapter 6. Modern Secularity (2009) (0)
- Two medieval views of election (1995) (0)
- Chapter 4. The Law of the State (2009) (0)
- Goodman's "Saadiah's Book of Theodicy" (1990) (0)
- What Could Be the Status of Non-Jews in a Jewish State? (2015) (0)
- Natural Law in Judaism: Bibliography (1998) (0)
- Are Philosophical Proofs of the Existence of God Theologically Meaningful (2014) (0)
- THOUGHTS ON “ DIVIDED LOYALTIES ” 297 (2013) (0)
- Halakhah in a Theological Perspective (2020) (0)
- Jewish Values in Bioethics. Levi Meier (1988) (0)
- Scripture and Text (2012) (0)
- To whom does my body belong (2017) (0)
- Chapter IV. Covenanted Community and God (2009) (0)
- The Moral Crisis of the West: The Judaeo-Christian Response1 (2000) (0)
- Land, State and God--Differing Loves (1986) (0)
- The New Jewish Christians (1978) (0)
- Some Thoughts on Sanford Levinson’s “Divided Loyalties: The Problem of 'Dual Sovereignty' and Constitutional Faith” (2013) (0)
- In Response to Renewing the Covenant (1992) (0)
- “Is the Covenant a Bilateral Relationship?” (2020) (0)
- The End of the Law:: A Significant Difference between Judaism and Christianity (2010) (0)
- Sociological Reality and Textual Traditions: Their Tension in the Ketubbah (2003) (0)
- At life's limits, what shall a doctor do?; Life, the inestimable Jewish good; Concerning physician assisted suicide. (1991) (0)
- Medicalisation of Capital Punishment (2004) (0)
- Art, Government Subsidy and the Jews (1990) (0)
- Land and People:: ONE JEWISH PERSPECTIVE (2021) (0)
- Zionism and Judaism: Was Spinoza the First Zionist? (2015) (0)
- A call to concern: a response. (1977) (0)
- Eugene B. Borowitz, The Talmud’s Theological Language‐Game: A Philosophical Discourse Analysis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 316 pp. $75.00 (cloth). (2007) (0)
- Yes to Halakhah Means No to Women Rabbis (1979) (0)
- Jewish Justice: The Contested Limits of Nature, Law, and Covenant (2017) (0)
- Chapter 7. The Social Contract and Jewish-Christian Relations (2009) (0)
- Chapter 2. The Covenant (2009) (0)
- The modern era (2012) (0)
- The Election of Israel: Some major Jewish thinkers cited (1995) (0)
- Are There Limits to Limiting God (1984) (0)
- Providence: Agencies of Redemption (2012) (0)
- Book review: Reading Freedman (2000) (0)
- The Law of Blasphemy (2011) (0)
- Can the State of Israel Be Both Jewish and Democratic (2015) (0)
- Natural Law in Judaism: The challenge of modern secularity (1998) (0)
- God: Divine Transcendence (2012) (0)
- After 9/11: Religion and Politics (2011) (0)
- What is Jewish Theology? (2020) (0)
- David Polish. Give Us a King: Legal-Religious Sources of Jewish Sovereignty. Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav, 1990. xix, 180 pp. (1992) (0)
- Chapter I. God and Human Persons (2009) (0)
- Natural Law in Judaism: Scriptural foundations (1998) (0)
- Natural Law in Judaism: Maimonides' teleology of the law (1998) (0)
- Chapter 1. Formulating the Jewish Social Contract (2009) (0)
- Chapter VI. Covenanted Community and Human Persons (2009) (0)
- Medieval Jewish Philosophers in Modern Jewish Philosophy (2012) (0)
- Chapter V. Between Human Persons (2009) (0)
- Imagination and the Theolatrous Impulse: Configuring God in Modern Jewish Thought (2012) (0)
- A Halachic View of Responsibility (1982) (0)
- Zionism and Judaism: Introduction (2015) (0)
- Franz Rosenzweig's Theology of the Jewish-Christian Relationship (1992) (0)
- The Doctrine of the Noahide Laws (1992) (0)
- The Election of Israel: Introduction (1995) (0)
- THE JEW: ESSAYS FROM MARTIN BUBER'S JOURNAL DER JUDE, 1916–1928: A REVIEW ESSAY (1982) (0)
- Jews, Christians, and Human Rights (2010) (0)
- Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (review) (2012) (0)
- No Religion without Idolatry: Mendelssohn’s Jewish Enlightenment by Gideon Freudenthal (review) (2013) (0)
- Reviews (1999) (0)
- The Jewish Ethical Tradition in the Modern University * (1998) (0)
- UFL Board of Advisors, 2002-2003* (2003) (0)
- Concerning Physician Assisted Suicide (1991) (0)
- Changing normal: The storyteller as culture bearer, researcher, and change agent (2013) (0)
- The Demise of Conservative Judaism (1985) (0)
- Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan (review) (2012) (0)
- Moral tradition and medical science (2019) (0)
- Radical Protestantism in Spinoza's Thought (review) (2007) (0)
- Chapter 3. The Covenant Reaffirmed (2009) (0)
- Book Review:Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective Judith Plaskow (1991) (0)
- Natural Law in Judaism: Natural law and created nature (1998) (0)
- Jewish Philosophy in North America (2019) (0)
- Divine Justice/Divine Command (2010) (0)
- Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People (review) (2012) (0)
- What we learned from the 1970's, II (1979) (0)
- Spinoza and Jewish Ethics (2012) (0)
- What is religious freedom? (2021) (0)
- Natural Law in Judaism: Conclusion (1998) (0)
- Chapter II. Human Persons and God (2009) (0)
- Jewish Tradition is Not Unitary (1983) (0)
- Hasidism, Mitnagdism, and Contemporary American Judaism (2012) (0)
- Goodman versus Rawls: Politics, Philosophy, and Theology (2015) (0)
- Transcending Denominational Labels (1983) (0)
- Response to Edmund N. Santurri (2013) (0)
- Jews Alongside Non-Jews (2012) (0)
- Jews and the Social Contract (2013) (0)
- A Brutal Unity: A Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church by Ephraim Radner (review) (2014) (0)
- The Election of Israel: Franz Rosenzweig's return to the doctrine (1995) (0)
- Before Revelation: The Rabbis, Paul, (2016) (0)
- Why the Jews and Why the Land of Israel (2015) (0)
- Should Israel Be a Theocracy (2015) (0)
- The Status of Christianity in Medieval European Halakhah (1992) (0)
- Jewish Enlightenment Beyond Western Europe (2012) (0)
- The elimination of mutilation and torture in rabbinic thought and practice: a Jewish comment amidst the civil liberties/national security debate (2012) (0)
- Human Dignity (2021) (0)
- Political Coercion Is Not Religious (1989) (0)
- Let Me Seek to Convert My Critics (1979) (0)
- Natural Law in Judaism: Noahide law and human personhood (1998) (0)
- The Opposition to Circumcision (1982) (0)
- Bioethics and the contemporary Jewish community. (1990) (0)
- A New Theology of Jewish-Christian Dialogue (1992) (0)
- Feminism and Gender (2012) (0)
- Reflections on the Challenges Confronting the Philosophy of Halakhah (2012) (0)
- Secular Zionism: Political or Cultural? (2015) (0)
- Devora Steinmetz, .Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xviii+204 pp. $55.00 (cloth). (2010) (0)
- Toward a Methodology of Storytelling Performance Criticism (2013) (0)
- The rabbinic development of the doctrine (1995) (0)
- Some Reflections on Michael Walzer's Politics and Passion (2006) (0)
- A Proposal for the Text of the Ketubbah (2003) (0)
- Interpretation, Modernity, and the Philosophy of Judaism (2012) (0)
- Doing Political Theology Today (2013) (0)
- The Election of Israel: Conclusion (1995) (0)
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