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Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies
University of Virginia
The Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia, where he has served since 1997.
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He is an influential thinker whose interests include Jewish philosophy and theology, modern and postmodern philosophical theology, pragmatism, and semiotics. Ochs coined the term "scriptural reasoning" and is the co-founder (with Anglican theologian David F. Ford) of the Society for Scriptural Reasoning, which promotes interfaith dialog among Christians, Jews, and Muslims through scriptural study groups. He is also a co-founder of the Children of Abraham Institute, which promotes interfaith study and dialog among members of the Abrahamic religions.
Ochs received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, and M.A. from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He has held teaching positions at Drew University, Colgate University, and the University of Maryland, College Park, and has been a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a visiting lecturer at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
In addition to teaching Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia, Ochs directs Religious Studies graduate programs in "Scripture, Interpretation, and Practice", an interdisciplinary approach to the Abrahamic traditions.
Ochs is an author who has written around a dozen books and hundreds of articles, reviews, and book chapters. He is series co-editor (with Christian theologian Stanley Hauerwas) of Radical Traditions: Theology in a postcritical key, published by Westview Press/Harper Collins and SCM Press/Eerdmans, and series co-editor (with Stanley Hauerwas and Ibrahim Moosa) of Encountering Traditions, published by Stanford University Press.
Ochs, Peter (1990). Understanding the Rabbinic Mind: Essays on the Hermeneutic of Max Kadushin. Atlanta: Scholars Press. ISBN 1-55540-544-4.
Griffin, David Ray; Cobb Jr., John B.; Ford, Marcus P.; Gunter, Pete A.Y.; Ochs, Peter (1993). Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy: Peirce, James, Bergson, Whitehead, and Hartshorne. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-1333-0.
Ochs, Peter (1993). The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Postcritical Scriptural Interpretation. Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press. ISBN 0-8091-3425-X.
Ochs, Peter (1998). Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of Scripture. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-57041-7.
Kepnes, Steven Kepnes; Ochs, Peter; Gibbs, Robert (1998). Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy. Boulder and San Francisco: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-6565-1.
Ochs, Peter; Borowitz, Eugene B. (2000). Reviewing the Covenant: Eugene Borowitz and the Postmodern Renewal of Jewish Theology. Albany: SUNY Press. ISBN 0-7914-4533-X.
Frymer-Kensky, Tikva; Novak, David; Ochs, Peter; Sandmel, David; Signer, Michael (September 2000). Christianity in Jewish Terms. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-6572-4.
Ochs, Peter; Levene, Nancy (2003). Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the end of the Twentieth Century. London: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Ochs, Peter; Cartwright, Michael (2003). The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited. London: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. ISBN 0802813623.
Halivni, David; Ochs, Peter (2007). Breaking the Tablets: Jewish Theology After the Shoah. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-5220-3.
Ochs, Peter; Johnson, William Stacy (2009). Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-61825-1. peter ochs.
Ochs, Peter; Ford, Deborah; Ford, David (2010). Wording a Radiance: Parting Conversations on God and the Church. SCM Press.
Ochs, Peter (2010). The Free Church and Israel's Covenant. Winnipeg, CA: Canadian Mennonite University.
Ochs, Peter (2011). Another Reformation: Postliberal Christianity and the Jews. Baker Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8010-3940-9.
Ochs, Peter (2019). Religion Without Violence: The Philosophy and Practice of Scriptural Reasoning[26] Wipf & Stock Press/Cascade.
"Charles Peirce's Metaphysical Equivalent of War," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (Fall, 1981): 247–258.
"The Liberal Arts Disease: A Neo-Scholastic Cure," Soundings LXV.4 (Winter 1982): 465–475.
"The Religion of Liberal Humanism," The NICM Journal VIII.2 (Summer 1983): 93–105.
"The Religion of Academia," Modern Age XXVIII.4 (Fall, 1984): 321–329.
"A Guide to the Perplexed Jewish Woman," with Vanessa Ochs, The Melton Journal, 19 (Summer, 1985). Reprinted in Religion and Intellectual Life III.2 (Winter 1986): 83–94."On the Search for Academic Community," Perspectives XV.2 (Spring 1985):9–19.
"Torah, Language and Philosophy," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 18(1985): 115–122.
"Scriptural Pragmatism: Jewish Philosophy's Conception of Truth" International Philosophical Quarterly XXVI.2 (June 1986):131–135.
"There's Much More Here Than Ontology: A Reply to Huston Smith," Religion and Intellectual Life, III No.3 (Spring 1986): 43–52.
"There's No God-Talk Unless God Talks: A Study of Max Kadushin as Rabbinic Pragmatist," Proceedings of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy, 1986.
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