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David Novak was born on 19 August, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American rabbi and philosopher (1941-present). Discover David Novak's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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Occupation Jewish theologian and Judaic studies professor
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 19 August 1941
Birthday 19 August
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1941

David Novak, (born August 19, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois) is a Jewish theologian, ethicist, and scholar of Jewish philosophy and law (Halakha).

Novak was born in 1941 in Chicago, Illinois.

1961

He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1961 and his master's degree in Hebrew literature in 1964.

1963

He is married to Melva Ziman since 1963; they have two children and five grandchildren.

1966

He received rabbinical ordination in 1966 from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he studied under Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Novak was a pulpit rabbi in several American Jewish communities from 1966 to 1989.

He also served as a Jewish chaplain at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, National Institute of Mental Health, Washington, D.C., from 1966 to 1969.

1971

He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Georgetown University in 1971.

(Later he remarked that he chose Georgetown in part because it was a Catholic university).

1989

In 1989 he moved to the University of Virginia as Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, a position he held until 1997.

1992

In 1992–1993 he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. He also lectured at Oxford University, Lancaster University and Drew University, and was a visiting scholar at Princeton University in 2004 and 2006.

Novak has contributed to Jewish ethics by advocating a Jewish social ethics drawn from both the natural law tradition and Halakha.

To this end, he interprets the rabbinic approach to the Noahide laws as a useful grounding for cross-cultural moral reasoning.

His expertise includes Maimonides, John Courtney Murray, and Paul Tillich.

In his theology, he combines Jewish rabbinical tradition and logic with Christian teachings.

1997

He is an ordained Conservative rabbi and holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies as Professor of the Study of Religion and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto since 1997.

His areas of interest are Jewish theology, Jewish ethics and biomedical ethics, political theory (with a special emphasis on natural law), and Jewish-Christian relations.

Novak has authored 16 books and more than 200 articles in scholarly journals.

Since 1997 he has held the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies as Professor of the Study of Religion and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

He is also a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics.

From 1997 to 2002 he also directed the Jewish Studies Programme.

2000

His book Covenantal Rights: A Study in Jewish Political Theory (Princeton University Press, 2000) won the American Academy of Religion Award for "best book in constructive religious thought" in 2000.

He is a regular contributor to the ABC News' Religion and Ethics portal.

He frequently addresses interfaith conferences and contributes to books and journals published by Christian theologians.

Novak, together with Peter Ochs, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, and Michael Signer, drafted a full-page advertisement which appeared in the Sunday, 10 September 2000 edition of The New York Times under the title "Dabru Emet (Speak Truth): A Jewish statement on Christians and Christianity".

Among the eight theological statements which the advertisement briefly laid out were: "Nazism is not a Christian phenomenon"; "Humanly irreconcilable differences between Jews and Christians will not be settled until God redeems the entire world as promised in Scripture"; and the statement which generated the most controversy in Jewish circles, "Jews and Christians worship the same God".

The advertisement was signed by 160 rabbis, including many leading Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative thinkers and a handful of Orthodox rabbis known for their interfaith work.

Explaining his rationale for publishing the document, Novak told J. The Jewish News of Northern California: "I want Jewish readers to clearly realize that Christians are not necessarily our enemies. Quite the contrary, they can be very good friends to Jews and Judaism".

The document was subsequently translated into eight languages.

Novak suggests that there are three degrees by which Christians can maintain respect for the covenant of the Jews mentioned in Jeremiah.

He observes, "In the early Church, it seems, the new covenant presented by the Apostolic Writings (better known as diatheke ekaine or novum testamentum) was either taken to be an addition to the old covenant (the religion of the Torah and Jewish Pharisaic tradition), or it was taken to be a replacement for the old covenant."

Novak considers both understandings to be supersessionist.

He designates the first as "soft supersessionism" and the second as "hard supersessionism."

The former "does not assert that God terminated the covenant of Exodus-Sinai with the Jewish people. Rather, it asserts that Jesus came to fulfill the promise of the old covenant, first for those Jews already initiated into the covenant, who then accepted his messiahhood as that covenant's fulfillment. And, it asserts that Jesus came to both initiate and fulfill the promise of the covenant for those Gentiles whose sole connection to the covenant is through him. Hence, in this kind of supersessionism, those Jews who do not accept Jesus' messiahhood are still part of the covenant in the sense of 'what God has put together let no man put asunder' [emphasis original]."

See also Dual-covenant theology.

Hard supersessionism, on the other hand, asserts that "[t]he old covenant is dead. The Jews by their sins, most prominently their sin of rejecting Jesus as the Messiah, have forfeited any covenantal status."

The hard supersessionists base their views on the bible passages found in and.

This classification provides mutually exclusive options.

Hard supersessionism implies both punitive and economic supersessionism; soft supersessionism does not fall into any of the three classes recognized as supersessionist by Christian theologians; instead it is associated with Jewish Christianity.

He is a founder, vice-president, and coordinator of the Jewish Law Panel of the Union for Traditional Judaism, and a faculty member and vice-president of the Union for Traditional Judaism in Teaneck, New Jersey.