Volume 11, Number 1 (May 2020): Talmud and the Ethics of Close Reading
Volume 10, Number 1 (December 2018): Rabbinic Texts and Contemporary Ethics
Volume 9, Number 1 (December 2016): History, the Bible, and Secular Jewish Identity
Volume 8, Number 1 (October 2014): Narrative, Textuality, and the Other
Volume 7, Number 1 (March 2012): Autonomy, Community, and the Jewish Self
Volume 6, Number 1 (December 2010): Halakhah and Morality
Volume 5, Number 1 (December 2007): Prayer and Otherness
Volume 4, Number 3 (May 2006): Jewish Sensibilities
Volume 4, Number 2 (March 2006): Rational Rabbis
Volume 4, Number 1 (November 2005): The Ethics of the Neighbor
Volume 3, Number 1 (June 2004): Strauss and Textual Reasoning
Volume 2, Number 1 (June 2003): The Aqedah: Midrash as Visualization
Volume 1, Number 1 (2002): Why Textual Reasoning?
Old Series
The Journal of Textual Reasoning evolved from “The Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Bitnetwork,” a collaborative project begun in 1991. An archive of these correspondences and early iterations of the journal may be found here. The year 2002 marked the official transition to the Journal of Textual Reasoning, whose publications are listed above.