Open Access Journal: Journal of Textual Reasoning

[First posted in AWOL 25 September 1917, updated 23 August 2021]

The Journal of Textual Reasoning is the main publishing expression of the Society of Textual Reasoning, which sponsors an electronic list-serve [textualreasoning@list.mail.virginia.edu] and meetings at professional academic conferences. The Journal will publish essays in the exegetical analyses of Jewish texts and the practice of textual reasoning as well as statements in the on-going development of the theory of Textual Reasoning. The Journal will generally follow a particular theme in each issue and include reviews of books relevant to Textual Reasoning. In the traditions of rabbinic thought and dialogical philosophy, we aim to present individual articles along with commentaries to them. To subscribe or to check on your options, write to textualreasoning-request@list.mail.virginia.edu.

Volume 11, Number 1 (May 2018): Talmud and the Ethics of Close Reading

Volume 10, Number 1 (December 2018): Rabbinic Texts and Contemporary Ethics

Volume 9, Number 1 (December 2016): History, the Bible, and Secular Jewish Identity

Volume 8, Number 1 (October 2014): Narrative, Textuality, and the Other

Volume 7, Number 1 (March 2012): Autonomy, Community, and the Jewish Self

Volume 6, Number 2 (March 2011): The Female Ruse: Women’s Subversive Voices in Biblical and Rabbinic Texts

Volume 6, Number 1 (December 2010): Halakhah and Morality

Volume 5, Number 1 (December 2007): Prayer and Otherness

Volume 4, Number 3 (May 2006): Jewish Sensibilities

Volume 4, Number 2 (March 2006): Rational Rabbis

Volume 4, Number 1 (November 2005): The Ethics of the Neighbor

Volume 3, Number 1 (June 2004): Strauss and Textual Reasoning

Volume 2, Number 1 (June 2003): The Aqedah: Midrash as Visualization

Volume 1, Number 1 (2002): Why Textual Reasoning?

Old Series
The Journal of Textual Reasoning evolved from “The Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Bitnetwork,” a collaborative project begun in 1991. An archive of these correspondences and early iterations of the journal may be found here. The year 2002 marked the official transition to the Journal of Textual Reasoning, whose publications are listed above.