Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew
Neil Gillman
1990
Revelation: What Really Happened?
Why does a book on Jewish philosophy begin with a discussion of revelation? First, because it is revelation that creates Judaism as a religion. […] Without God’s revelation, however we understand it, God would be irrelevant to the human enterprise, and Judaism would be purely a matter of peoplehood and culture…
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