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Through a critical study of the writings of Rav Shagar and Tamar Ross, Miriam Feldmann Kaye asks how Jewish theology can survive the tide of postmodernism and its refutation of a single, objective, and ultimate truth, and suggests how aspects of postmodernism might be conceived of as a potential resource for rejuvenating religion.
About the author
Miriam Feldmann Kaye, a recipient of the Cambridge Theological Studies Prize, holds a BA from Cambridge University, MA from the University of London, and PhD in Jewish History from Haifa University. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at Bar Ilan University. She recently completed a Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship, and a Truman Research Institute Associate Fellowship both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this capacity she has taught courses on postmodern theology in contemporary Jewish thought and on the changing concept of truth in the modern and postmodern age. She has also lectured at British Association for Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University and at the World Congress of Jewish Studies, and been a featured speaker at Limmud UK. Her publications include a chapter in Ronit Irshai and Dov Schwartz (eds.), 'A New Spirit in the Palace of Torah'. She is co-Founding Director of the Israel branch of the Faith and Belief Forum and was recently listed in the 'Top 70 Brits Shaping the Modern State of Israel' by the Times of Israel.
