Volume 5, Number 1 (December 2007)
Guest Editor
Daniel Weiss, University of Virginia
Managing Editor
Daniel Weiss, University of Virginia
General Editors
Aryeh Cohen, American Jewish University
Martin Kavka, Florida State University
Shaul Magid, Indiana University Bloomington
Founding Editor
Peter Ochs, University of Virginia
Introduction
Daniel Weiss, University of Virginia
Primary Essay
The (Odd) Deixis of “You” in Rabbinic Prayer
Daniel Weiss, University of Virginia
Responses
Thou, So to Speak: Dei-xis
Adam Zachary Newton, Yeshiva UniversityPray According to the Vilna Gaon
“Adonai, Open My Lips”: Preparing to Pray According to the Vilna Gaon
Shaul Magid, Indiana University Bloomington
Prayer, Pronouns, and Reference to God
Michael Walsh Dickey, University of Pittsburgh
Strange Names
William Plevan, Princeton University
Speaking “You” Theologically: A Response to Daniel Haskell Weiss’ “The (Odd) Deixis of ‘You’ in Rabbinic Prayer”
Randi Rashkover, George Mason University
Pragmatic Cataphasis: Plenitude and Caution in Morning Prayer (Taking Up Daniel Weiss’ Challenge)
Peter Ochs, University of Virginia
General Essays
Liturgical Ethics in Cohen’s Religion of Reason
Steven Kepnes, Colgate University
“On a Word and a Prayer”: Education, Prayer, and the Affirmation of Faith
Claire Katz, Texas A&M University
Afterword
Three Paradoxes of Prayer
Daniel Weiss, University of Virginia