Alan Brill. Judaism and Other Religions: Models of Understanding

Abstract

In this book, Alan Brill has set himself a formidable task: not to offer a Jewish theology of religious pluralism (which would be formidable enough), but to collect the building materials for such a theology. He wants to assemble, rather than to construct; to gather, rather than to select. Fortunately, he does not entirely succeed. He does not, because he (or anyone) cannot, keep the two moves entirely separate. While he assembles and gathers, he reveals preferences for construction. That is a big part of the significance, and the charm, of his book.