Contributor

Peter Ochs, Ph.D.

Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia

Peter Ochs (Ph.D. Yale; M.A. Jewish Theological Seminary) is Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia, where he also directs Religious Studies graduate programs in “Scripture, Interpretation, and Practice" -- an interdisciplinary approach to the Abrahamic traditions and more. He is co-founder of the (Abrahamic) Society for Scriptural Reasoning. He has authored, co-authored or co-edited a number of books including Another Reformation: Postliberal Christianity and the Jews; The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited; Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of Scripture; Reviewing the Covenant: Eugene B. Borowitz and the Postmodern Renewal of Theology; Christianity in Jewish Terms; Reasoning after Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy; The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity; and Understanding the Rabbinical Mind. With Stanley Hauerwas, he co-edits the book series Radical Traditions: (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim) Theology in a Post-critical Key. Professor Ochs serves on the editorial boards of Modern Theology, Theology Today, The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, The Journal of Textual Reasoning, and Crosscurrents.