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Article: The Unfolding Tradition: Jewish Law After Sinai.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2008
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The Unfolding Tradition: Jewish Law After Sinai, by Elliot N. Dorff. New York: Aviv Press, 2005. 566 pp. $19.95.
To some extent, those of us who bear no particular relationship to Conservative Judaism might feel vaguely misled by the promise of the title. It promises an exploration into the jurisprudence and philosophy of Jewish law generally, but delivers instead an exquisitely thorough analysis of the spectrum of philosophical positions that characterize the history of Conservative Judaism from Frankel and Schechter to the contemporary figures Alana Suskin, Raymond Scheindlin, Gordon Tucker, and, of course, the dean of contemporary Conservative legal thought, ...