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challenging
informative
slow-paced
4.25
This book was a fantastic aid for my class this semester in Jewish Thought and Theology. The editors certainly did a great job in providing adequate information on each section - giving the reader some context (which was super beneficial for a student like myself). They also did a fantastic job in providing short blurbs just before each individual author they brought into the fold. I love how they provided quick but supplemental works from each of the authors they selected. My only complaint is that sometimes it felt like the authors chosen either felt somewhat disconnected from the topic, or that the selection by those authors did not always feel the most adequate for stating the position trying to be presented. But, 9 times out of 10 they hit the nail on the head, as was with Mordecai Kaplan, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Peter Beinart, and many more.
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