Seminar on "God, Politics, and the Jewish Tradition"

The Witherspoon Institute announces a two-week summer seminar to be held at Princeton University on “God, Politics, and the Jewish Tradition.” Modern Jewish thought has for the most part focused on ethics to the exclusion of the political and theol...

The Witherspoon Institute announces a two-week summer seminar to be held at Princeton University on “God, Politics, and the Jewish Tradition.” Modern Jewish thought has for the most part focused on ethics to the exclusion of the political and theological dimensions of Judaism. At the same time, the study of Judaism in the academy has focused largely on historicizing Judaism to the detriment of appreciating the Jewish tradition’s broad humanistic concerns with questions of justice, authority, and human obligations and rights. This seminar aims to remedy both of these more limited but dominant perspectives by engaging the theological and political dimensions of the Jewish tradition, with an eye to their contemporary relevance. In this way, the seminar aims to bring the intellectual and moral riches of Judaism into current political discussions. The seminar will enable young scholars to consider and perhaps continue the legacy of great Jewish thinkers and teachers, both ancient and modern, who have engaged the broader intellectual and political world from a self-consciously Jewish perspective in the struggle for a just, morally decent, and humane social order.

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