Volume 1, Number 1 (2002)
Introduction
Introducing the Journal of Textual Reasoning: Rereading Judaism after Modernity
Steven Kepnes, Colgate University
Essays
Why Textual Reasoning?
Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto
Why Textual Reasoning?
Aryeh Cohen, University of Judaism
Behind the Mechitsa: Reflections on the Rules of Textual Reasoning
Peter Ochs, University of Virginia
Responses
Response to “Why Textual Reasoning?”
Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University
The Ground of Textual Reasoning: A Response to Robert Gibbs
Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania
The Brokenness (and Sacrality) of the Human Voice: A Response to Aryeh Cohen
Shaul Magid, Jewish Theological Seminary
Before the Law: Reflections on Textual (Un)Reasoning
Eliot R. Wolfson, New York University
A Response to Peter Ochs
Zachary Braiterman, Syracuse University
Textual Reasoning
David Novak, University of Toronto
Fellowship, Recognition and/or Death
Shalom Carmy, Yeshiva University
Texts, Reason, and Homo Liber, or What I have Learned I’ve Learned through Textual Reasoning, Together
Michael Zank, Boston University
Textual Reasoning as Social Performance: Meeting Over the Text
Jim Fodor, St. Bonaventure University
Responses to Cohen, Gibbs, and Ochs
Hyam Maccoby, University of Leeds
Epilogue
The Function of Subjectivity in Textual Reasoning
Martin Kavka, Florida State University