Research
Dr Weiss is the author of Paradox and the Prophets:Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2012). His research interests include:
- Modern Jewish religious thought and philosophy (especially Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas)
- Theories and practices of interreligious dialogue and communication
- The (contested) relationship between scripture and philosophy, both in the Jewish intellectual tradition and more generally.
- Aspects of ethics, hermeneutics and theopolitics in classical rabbinic literature.
Within the Faculty of Divinity, he offers papers on World Religions in Comparative Perspective (A7), The Life, Thought, and Worship of Modern Judaism (B14), Judaism II (C8) Judaism and Philosophy (D2c) and provides MPhil and Doctoral supervision in various topics in Jewish Studies.
Dr Weiss is actively involved in the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme (http://www.interfaith.cam.ac.uk/) and in Scriptural Reasoning, an interfaith activity in which Jews, Christians, and Muslims meet together to read, discuss, and debate short passages from their respective scriptural texts.
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Publications
- Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2012).
- 'Reasoning from out of Particularity: Possibilities for Conversation in Theological Ethics.' Studies in Christian Ethics 25.2 (May 2012), 236-243.
- 'Just Peacemaking and Ethical Formation in Classical Rabbinic Literature.' The Conrad Grebel Review 30.1 (Winter 2012), 76-95.
- 'A Dialogue between Philosophy and Scripture: Rereading Hermann Cohen through Bakhtin.' The Journal of Religion 90.1 (January 2010). 15-32.
- 'The (odd) deixis of 'you' in rabbinic prayer.' Journal of Textual Reasoning 5.1 (December 2007).
