Dr susan blumenthal biography

photo courtesy: Ann Borden, Emory University

David R. Blumenthal

Jay and Leslie Cohen

Professor of Judaic Studies, retired

Professor Blumenthal did path-breaking work in medieval intellectual Jewish history with his early studies in Yemenite philosophy, his two-volume textbook on Jewish mysticism (Understanding Jewish Mysticism), and his later work that established the concept &#;philosophic mysticism&#; as a category of analysis in medieval philosophy and mysticism (Philosophic Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion).

Professor Blumenthal also did innovative work in modern Jewish religious thinking: in spiritual theology (God at the Center), in post-shoah theology (Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest), and in social psychology and moral education in the post-shoah era (The Banality of Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah and Jewish Tradition).

His newest book, Keeping God at the Center: Contemplating and Using the Prayerbook,is