Prayer and Otherness
Introduction
Whom do we address when we pray? What can we say about the “other” who is addressed? What justifies us in speaking at all? In what ways does the act of prayer implicate us in relations to other human beings? To ourselves? These and related questions will be the focus of this issue of the Journal of Textual Reasoning, which seeks to shed light on the theme of “Prayer and Otherness.”Introduction
Daniel H. Weiss
Primary Essay
The (Odd) Deixis of ‘You’ in Rabbinic Prayer
Daniel H. Weiss
Responses
Thou, So to Speak: Dei-xis
Adam Zachary Newton
Prayer, Pronouns, and Reference to God
Michael Walsh Dickey
Strange Names
William Plevan
Speaking “You” Theologically: A Response to Daniel Haskell Weiss’ “The (Odd) Deixis of ‘You’ in Rabbinic Prayer”
Randi Rashkover
Pragmatic Cataphasis: Plenitude and Caution in Morning Prayer (Taking up Daniel Weiss’ Challenge)
Peter Ochs
General Essays
Liturgical Ethics in Cohen’s Religion of Reason
Steven Kepnes
Afterward
Three Paradoxes of Prayer
Daniel H. Weiss