Peter Ochs, Ph.D.
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Peter Ochs (Ph.D. Yale; M.A. Jewish Theological Seminary) is Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia, where he also directs Religious Studies graduate programs in “Scripture, Interpretation, and Practice" -- an interdisciplinary approach to the Abrahamic traditions and more. He is co-founder of the (Abrahamic) Society for Scriptural Reasoning. He has authored, co-authored or co-edited a number of books including Another Reformation: Postliberal Christianity and the Jews; The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited; Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of Scripture; Reviewing the Covenant: Eugene B. Borowitz and the Postmodern Renewal of Theology; Christianity in Jewish Terms; Reasoning after Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy; The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity; and Understanding the Rabbinical Mind. With Stanley Hauerwas, he co-edits the book series Radical Traditions: (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim) Theology in a Post-critical Key. Professor Ochs serves on the editorial boards of Modern Theology, Theology Today, The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, The Journal of Textual Reasoning, and Crosscurrents.

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Scripture, Science and Self in Islam

Posted March 19, 2011 | 22:00:09 (EST)

What is Scripture? For the Muslim thinker Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), founding poet of the nation of Pakistan, the answer concerns science as well as the Quran, reason as well as faith, poetry as well as prophecy. In his influential book of philosophy and faith, 'The Reconstruction of...

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These Libyan Religious Scholars are My Friends Whether or Not They Want to Be

Posted March 7, 2011 | 16:05:45 (EST)

I do not know how to read or write about Scripture this week without turning again and again to the words of anguish penned by religious scholars among the broad population of Libyans currently under siege by the national government. Today's plea is this:

The Network of Free Ulema has...

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What Is Scripture?

Posted October 10, 2010 | 08:52:46 (EST)

This is the first in a series of blogs I would like to offer on the question, "What is Scripture?" In each blog, I plan to summarize and briefly comment on how this question is answered by one of a number different authors from various traditions. The blog is inspired...

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Renewing Abraham's Children in the New Year and Liberating Them from the Old

Posted September 8, 2010 | 19:52:42 (EST)

Every New Year I try to re-read the Old Year like a troubling text of Torah. I mean a text like this one from the prescribed readings for the second day of Rosh Hashanah: "Take now your son, your only son" (Gen. 22:2). The text troubles me not only because...

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