Table of Contents

Introduction A Note on the Text 1. God Is Echad 2. God Is Power 3. God Is Person 4. God Is Nice (Sometimes) 5. God Is Not Nice (Sometimes) 6. God Can Change 7. God Creates 8. God Reveals 9. God Redeems Conclusion: What It Means to Be Jewish Notes Glossary Suggestions for Further Reading

About the Author

Neil Gillman, rabbi and PhD, is professor of Jewish philosophy at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he has served as chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and dean of the Rabbinical School. He is author of Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought; The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of the Year"; The Way Into Encountering God in Judaism; The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life (all Jewish Lights) and Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, winner of the National Jewish Book Award.