Jewish theology of the Bible between History, Principle, and Practice

Abstract

In this survey the enterprise of Jewish Biblical theology is taken under scrutiny. While understanding the Hebrew or Jewish Bible or Tanakh Theology as an attempt to grasp and express the unique complexity of the biblical message, the literary works of Leo Baeck, Yehezkel Kaufmann, Salomon Schechter, Jon D.

Levenson, Gershom Ratheiser and Israel Knohl are discussed.

Keywords

• Jewish
• theology
• Bible
• between
• History
• Principle
• Practice