According to Jewish scholar Byron Sherwin, while Jewish tradition always emphasized the nexus between thought and action, theory and practice, modern Jewish scholarship severed that relationship. Modern scholars seem prone to over-specialization in minute sub-areas of Jewish studies or limit their scholarly investigations to specific texts that are written in specific lands during specific periods, without surveying the breadth of classic Jewish sources. In contrast, Sherwin draws from the vast resources of classic Jewish texts in a quest for solutions to today's troubling concerns, offering a novel agenda and methodology for contemporary Jewish scholarship.
- ISBN13 9780815624905
- Publish Date 1 October 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Syracuse University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English