Abstract
A lingering message of David Hartman’s “Sinai and Messianism,” some years ago now (in Joy and Responsibility, 1978), is that, in place of a utopian messianism that may displace the present in favor of a hoped for future, Talmudic discourse offers Jews a normalized messianism that embodies the future, piecemeal, in the dialogic activities of this present moment of study and caring action. Aryeh Cohen’s essay on “Framing Women/Constructing Exile” (BITNETWORK Vol 3.2) has initiated dialogues among philosophers and Talmudists that we hope will remain a significant part of the NETWORK’s activities. Reports on these dialogues, in fact, displace most other interests of this summer issue of the NETWORK.
Recommended Citation
"Old Series: Volume 3, Number 2 (August 1994)." Journal of Textual Reasoning Old Series: Vol. 3 (1994): 49-91. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/jtr/vol0/iss3/2