Neil Gillman
Neil Gillman (September 11, 1933 – November 24, 2017) was a Canadian-American rabbi and philosopher affiliated with Conservative Judaism.
Contents
1 Biography
2 In Conservative Judaism
3 Books
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Biography
Gillman was born in Quebec City, Canada. He graduated from McGill University in 1954. He was ordained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1975.
In Conservative Judaism
Gilman was a member of the Conservative movement's rabbinical body, the Rabbinical Assembly, and was a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in Manhattan, New York City, USA.[1]
Gillman was one of the members of the Conservative movement's commission which produced Emet Ve-Emunah ("Truth and Faith"), the first official statement of beliefs of Conservative Judaism.
Books
Doing Jewish Theology: God, Torah and Israel in Modern Judaism, Jewish Lights, 2008.
Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life, Jewish Lights, 2006.
The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians, Jewish Lights, 2003.
The Way into Encountering God in Judaism, Jewish Lights, 2000.
The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, Jewish Lights, 1997.
Conservative Judaism: The New Century, Behrman House, 1993.
Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, Jewish Publication Society, 1992.
Gabriel Marcel on Religious Knowledge, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1980.
See also
- American philosophy
- List of American philosophers
References
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External links
- The Problematics of Myth
Torah From Terror (Edited with Rabbi Jason Miller)
Neil Gillman at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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