God

God the Creator

Unlike the creation stories of other Near Eastern cultures, the biblical creation story is not concerned with God's origins.

God: Some Feminist Questions

Why female pronouns for God may not be enough.

God’s Phallus

Surprisingly enough, gender-sensitive critiques of the Jewish God can create problems for notions of masculinity.

God Language and Liturgy

Jewish feminists imagine and address God in a multiplicity of ways, both innovative and traditional.

The Experience and Nearness of God

Martin Buber and Abraham Joshua Heschel stressed the human encounter with God.

Saadiah Gaon’s Theology

Written in 933, The Book of Beliefs and Opinions provided rational analysis of God and Judaism, setting a precedent for medieval philosophers.

God Exists, I’ll Prove It To You

Like many medieval Jewish thinkers, Maimonides formulated his own proofs for the existence of God.

The Life and Times of…uh…God

Author Jack Miles' Pulitzer Prize winning biography is just divine.

Secular Humanistic Judaism: Rejecting God

Humans, not God, are at the center of this Jewish denomination.

What We Talk About When We Talk About God

So God is just like you and me, right? Maimonides explains why the Bible's descriptions of God can't be taken literally.

Thinking and Speaking About God

Using language--a human construct--to describe the divine is a precarious matter.

The Torah as a Divine Integration

Scholars understand the Torah to be a combination of four prior documents. The sum is far greater than the parts.