Naming God

Introduction: Why This Book: And Why It Is the Way It Is
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD

Part I: Two Overviews
The History, Meaning, and Varieties of Avinu Malkeinu
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
"Our Father and King": The Many Ways That Liturgy Means
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
Part II: The Liturgy
Editor's Introduction to Avinu Malkeinu
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
Translator's Introduction to Avinu Malkeinu
Dr. Joel M. Hoffman
Avinu Malkeinu: A New and Annotated Translation
Dr. Joel M. Hoffman
Translator's Introduction to Ki Hinei Kachomer
Dr. Joel M. Hoffman
Ki Hinei Kachomer: A New and Annotated Translation
Dr. Joel M. Hoffman
Part III: Avinu Malkeinu: The Music
The Music of Avinu Malkeinu
Gordon Dale, MA
Whös Your Daddy?
Chazzan Danny Maseng
Part IV: Precursors, Foundations, and Parallels
Biblical Precursors: Father, King, Potter
Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler
Father or King: A View from the Psalms
Rabbi Jonathan Magonet, PhD
Why "Our Father"?
Dr. Annette M. Boeckler
Prayer and Character: The Story behind Avinu Malkeinu
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, DHL
Divine Epithets and Human Ambivalence
Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, PhD
Our Father, Our King: Old and New Parables
Dr. Wendy Zierler
Empowerment, Not Police: What Are We to Do with Problematic Liturgical Passages?
Rabbi Dalia Marx, PhD
Why We Say Things We Don¿t Believe
Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar
Part V: How Prayer Book Editors Deal with Naming God
A British Father and a British King?
Rabbi Paul Freedman
Avinu Malkeinu and the New Reform Machzor (Mishkan HaNefesh)
Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL
What Is God¿s Name?
Rabbi David A. Teutsch, PhD
Changing God¿s Names: The Liturgy of Liberal Judaism in Great Britain
Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhD, and Rabbi Charles H. Middleburgh, PhD
Part VI: Masculine Imagery; Feminist Critique
So Near and Oh So Far
Rabbi Laura Geller
Our Rock, Our Hard Place
Catherine Madsen
What¿s in a Word? Or, How We Read and Hear Our Prayers
Ruth Messinger
Rescuing the Father-God from Delray Beach
Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, DMin
I Do Not Know Your Name
Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, DMin
Part VII: What¿s in a Name?
Abracadabra: The Magic of Naming
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL
My Name Is Vulnerability
Rabbi Tony Bayfield, CBE, DD
We Are But Dust
Dr. Erica Brown
Two Pockets
Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson
Re-imaging God
Rabbi Lawrence A. Englander, CM, DHL, DD
"Would You Still Love Me If...?"
Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Celebrating a Conflicted Relationship with God
Rabbi Asher Lopatin
God the Cashier: A Parable of the Dubner Maggid¿s
Rabbi Jack Riemer
Piety and Protest
Rabbi Dennis C. Sasso, DMin
The Most Difficult Name for God, ¿You¿ ¿Or, How Is Prayer Possible?
Rabbi Jonathan P. Slater, DMin
Machzor and Malkhut: The Challenge of Naming a King
Rabbi David Stern
¿We Guess; We Clothe Thee, Unseen King¿
Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, DD
From Direct Experience to a World of Words: The God We Struggle to Know
Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel

Appendix A: Avinu Malkeinu through Time
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
Ashkenazi-Polish Rite
(Minhag Polin)
Our First Extant Prayer Book, Babylonia, circa 860 CE
(Seder Rav Amram)
France, Eleventh to Twelfth Centuries
(Machzor Vitry)
Italy, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
(Machzor Roma)
Ashkenazi-German Rite
(Minhag Rinus)
England, Turn of the Twentieth Century
(Minhag Sepharad)
Yemenite Tikhlal
(the Baladi Rite)
Chabad
(Minhag Lubavitch, Minhag Ari as adapted by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad)
Appendix B: Alternatives to Avinu Malkeinu
Rabbi Dalia Marx, PhD
From Israel: Kavanat Halev, Reform, 1989
From the UK: Forms of Prayer (Draft Edition), Reform, 2014
From North America: Mahzor Lev Shalem, Conservative, 2010
From North America: Mishkan HaNefesh, Reform, 2015
From North America: Kehilla Community Machzor, Renewal, 2014

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