Preface and Acknowledgements
Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Introduction: Idolatry—Revisiting a Fundamental Concept: Project Description
Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Understanding Idolatry: An Invitation to a Contemporary Conversation
Alon Goshen-Gottstein
The Theology and Politics of Idolatry
Reuven Kimelman
Monotheism and Idolatry: Theological Challenges and Considerations
Michael Fishbane
Idolatry on the Other Side of Modernity
Shaul Magid
Jewish Feminist Liberation Theology and the Modern Criticism of Idols
Melissa Raphael
Idolatry as Dehumanization
Rivon Krygier
Contemporary Idolatry and a Path to Freedom
Eilon Shamir
The Idolatry of Humankind
Jonathan Wittenberg
“We Live as Did the Ancients:” Reflections on the Ambiguous Role of Idolatry in Contemporary Jewish Thought
Arnold Eisen
Idolatry
Haviva Pedaya
On Petrification
Michael Marmur
The Idolatry of the Written Word
Paul Mendes-Flohr
The Concept of Idolatry in Current Times
Hanoch Ben-Pazi
The Line between True Religion and Idolatry
Warren Zev Harvey
Thinking Idolatry with/against Maimonides: The Case of Christianity
Menachem Kellner
Return of the Gods: A Jeux d’Esprit on Idolatry in Judaism
Norman Solomon
The Value of Idolatry
Menachem Fisch
Concluding Observations: The Discourse on Idolatry
Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Index