This Was from God

Jerome Yehuda Gellman is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Honorary Professor at Australian Catholic University. He has published widely in analytic philosophy of religion and in constructive Jewish theology.

• Preface Introduction Part I: Challenge and Response Chapter 1: The Challenge Chapter 2: Faith-Responses Chapter 3: Apologetics Chapter Four: A Counterproof Part II: My Theological Toolbox Chapter 5: Divine Providence Chapter 6: Divine Accommodation Part III: This Was from God Chapter 7: This Was from God Chapter 8: Torah from Heaven Part IV: Torah Today Chapter 9: Reading Torah with the Hasidim Chapter 10: Prayer and Observing Commandments

“This Was from God deftly combines intellectual honesty, philosophical rigor, and piety—a piety that is, in the deepest and most admirable sense of the term, a simple one. Gellman’s bold proposals regarding the true nature of the information scripture provides will, paradoxically, strike some liberal theologians as rather too liberal and some traditionalists as too traditional. Thus Gellman challenges many readers in ways that they are not expecting to be challenged. Many of us will find that both our faith and our critical outlook grow deeper as a result of this book. The breadth of material Gellman synthesizes is remarkable: western philosophy, biblical scholarship, rabbinic texts, kabbalah, and medieval and modern Jewish philosophy. And yet Gellman wears this learning lightly in a book that is surprisingly well written and accessible.”