Tamar Ross
Tamar Ross (born January 16, 1938 in Detroit , Michigan ) is Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University and focuses on issues of feminism in the field of religion. She belongs to Orthodox Judaism .
Life and statements
Her research topics concern the philosophy of Abraham Isaak Kook , the modern Mussar movement , Judaism and the gender problem. She is the author of several books and essays on Jewish ethics and philosophy, current issues in Jewish Orthodoxy, the philosophy of Halacha and Orthodox Jewish Feminism .
With regard to gender issues, Tamar Ross argues that feminism is not alien to the Torah , but is an integral part. It is based on the concept of progressive religious revelation that results from the development of society and the increasing maturity of humanity. In doing so, she rejects the opposing concept of Yeridat ha-dorot, i.e. the idea of a spiritual and religious decline. At the same time, however, she also turns against liberal currents in modern Judaism, which question the authority of religious writings and traditions. With her symbol of the "enlargement of the palace of the Torah", originally an idea of Abraham Isaak Kook, she searches for answers to questions of the present by expanding the religious tradition instead of dissolving and undermining it.
Reception and criticism
Yoel Finkelman criticizes the theses of Tamar Ross as deductions from their feminist axiomatics, which they do not question. Conversely, it should measure these axioms against the halachic tradition. The inconsistency of the interpretation of the scriptures with the feminist principles does not have to be caused by errors of interpretation.
Works (selection)
- The Cognitive Value of Religious Truth Claims: Rabbi AI Kook and Postmodernism. In: Hazon Nahum: Jubilee Volume in Honor of Norman Lamm. December 1997, pp. 479-527.
- Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Feminism. In: Jonathan Frankel, Eli Lederhendler, Peter Y. Medding, Ezra Mendelsohn (eds.): Studies in Contemporary Jewry. Institute of Contemporary Jewry and Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 3-38.
- Orthodoxy, Women, and Halakhic Change. In: Amichai Berholz: The Quest for Halakha: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Jewish Law. Yediot Aharonot / Bet Morasha, Tel Aviv 2003, ISBN 965-511-098-2 , pp. 387-438 (Hebrew).
- Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism. 1st edition. Brandeis University Press, Hanover 2004, ISBN 1-58465-390-6 .
swell
- Yoel Finkelman: A Critique of Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism by Tamar Ross. (PDF) In: Edah Journal 4: 2 2004.
- Aryeh A. Frimer: Guarding the Treasure. (PDF). Tamar Ross: Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism. In: BDD - Journal of Torah and Scholarship. 18, English section, April 2007, pp. 67-106 (Review).
- God subjugates man, and man subjugates his wife. In: HaAretz . January 11, 2007.
- Daniel Reifman: Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism. In: Modern Judaism. February 26, 2006, pp. 101-108 (Review).
- Claire E. Sufrin: Telling Stories: The Legal Turn in Jewish Feminist Thought. In: Marion Kaplan, Deborah Dash Moore (eds.): Gender and Jewish History. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2011, pp. 233-250.
Web links
- Professor Ross Page at Bar Ilan University, Philosophy Department Faculty ( Memento of February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Roberta Rosenthal kWall: The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish tradition. Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-023809-4 ( books.google.de [accessed June 30, 2016]).
- ^ A b Guarding the Treasure. (PDF) at lookstein.org.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ross, Tamar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Jewish philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit , Michigan |