Peter Ochs
Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies Professor Emeritus
- PhD, Yale University (Charles Peirce's Metaphysical Conviction, with John E. Smith and Rulon Wells)
- MA in Jewish Thought, The Jewish Theological Seminary
- BA, summa cum laude in Anthropology with Honors with Exceptional Distinction, Yale College
Research Interests:
- Jewish philosophy and theology
- Religion, Politics, and Conflict Studies
- Comparative Jewish-Christian-Muslim studies
- Abrahamic "Scriptural Reasoning"
- Rabbinic semiotics
- Judaism and science
- Religion and foreign affairs
- Postliberal Christian theologies
- American philosophy, pragmatism
- Charles Peirce's philosophy and recent philosophic theology
My research addresses several subjects: logic, semiotics, and scripture ("scriptural reasoning"); inter-religious violence and peacebuilding; philosophy and religion; the relation of contemporary Jewish thought to the classical biblical and rabbinic sources; relations among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions of scriptural interpretation; relations among contemporary religious, philosophic, and scientific reasoning.
Teaching:
- Religion, Politics, and Conflict
- Values, Language, and Religion
- Basic Philosophy for Students of Theology and Religion
- Scripture and Philosophy in Judaism
- Signs of Salvation: Pragmatic Semiotics from Augustine to Peirce
- Religion and Foreign Affairs
- The Jewish Mystical Tradition
- “God” (in Abrahamic and other traditions)
- Postliberal Theologies: Christian and Jewish
- What Is Scripture?
- Science and Judaism
- Prayer and Poetics
- The Religions of Abraham in Peace and Conflict
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Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4126
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