Edited by Elliot N. Dorff and Jonathan K. Crane
For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike. As the essays in this volume show, the theologians and practitioners of Judaism have a long history of wrestling with moral questions, responding to them in an open, argumentative mode
that reveals the strengths and weaknesses of all sides of a question. The Jewish tradition also offers guidance for moral conduct in both children and adults, and how to motivate people to do the right thing despite weakness and temptation.
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and
Morality offers a collection of original essays addressing these topics-historical and contemporary, as well as philosophical and practical-by leading scholars from around the world. The first section of the volume describes the history of the Jewish tradition's moral thought, from the Bible to
contemporary Jewish approaches. The second part includes chapters on specific fields in ethics, including the ethics of medicine, business, sex, speech, politics, war, and the environment.
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Elliot N. Dorff and Jonathan K. Crane: Introduction
I. Jewish Ethical Theories
1. Elliot N. Dorff and Jonathan K. Crane: Introduction: Why Study Jewish Ethics?
2. Elaine Goodfriend: Ethical Theory and Practice in the Hebrew Bible
3.
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert: Ethical Theories in Rabbinic Literature
4. Joseph Dan: Ethical Theories in Jewish Mystical Writings
5. Warren Zev Harvey: Ethical Theories Among Medieval Jewish Rationalists
6. David Novak: Spinoza and Jewish Ethics
7. Ira Stone: Mussar Ethics and Other
Nineteenth Century Jewish Ethical Theories
8. Jonathan K. Crane: Ethical Theories of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber
9. Matthew LaGrone: Ethical Theories of Mordecai Kaplan and Abraham Joshua Heschel
10. Lawrence Kaplan: Ethical Theories of Abraham Isaac Kook and Joseph
B. Soloveitchik
11. Michael Berenbaum: Ethical Implications of the Holocaust
12. Michael Marmur: Jewish Ethical Theories in the Reform Movement
13. Shai Cherry: Jewish Ethical Theories in the Conservative Movement
14. David Shatz: Jewish Ethical Theories in the Orthodox
Movement
15. David Teutsch: Jewish Ethical Theories in the Reconstructionist Movement
16. Judith Plaskow: Feminist Jewish Ethical Theories
17. Martin Kavka: Post-Modern Jewish Ethical Theories
II. Topics in Jewish Morals
18. Elliot N. Dorff and Jonathan K. Crane:
Introduction
19. Elliot N. Dorff: Bioethics: The Beginning of Life
20. Daniel Sinclair: Bioethics: The End of Life
21. Aaron Mackler: Bioethics: The Distribution of Health Care
22. Laurie Zoloth: Bioethics: The New Genetics
23. Barry Leff: Jewish Business Ethics
24. Danya
Ruttenberg: Jewish Sexual Ethics
25. Arthur Waskow: Jewish Environmental Ethics
26. Alyssa Gray: Jewish Ethics of Speech
27. Jill Jacobs: Jewish Political Ethics: America
28. Reuven Hammer: Jewish Political Ethics: Israel
29. Laurie Levenson: Judaism and Criminal Justice
30.
Asa Kasher: Jewish Ethics of War
31. Aaron Gross: Jewish Ethics of Animals and Diet
List of Abbreviations
Name Index
Subject Index
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Elliot N. Dorff is Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University and Jonathan K. Crane is Raymond F. Schinazi Junior Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought at the Center for Ethics at Emory University.
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