Neil Gillman

Gillman was born in Quebec City, Canada. He graduated from McGill University in 1954. He was ordained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1975.

Gilman was a member of the Conservative movement's rabbinical body, the Rabbinical Assembly, and was a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in Manhattan, New York City, USA.[1]

Gillman was one of the members of the Conservative movement's commission which produced Emet Ve-Emunah ("Truth and Faith"), the first official statement of beliefs of Conservative Judaism.

• Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought, Jewish Lights, 2013.
• Doing Jewish Theology: God, Torah and Israel in Modern Judaism, Jewish Lights, 2008.
• Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life, Jewish Lights, 2006.
• The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians, Jewish Lights, 2003.
• The Way into Encountering God in Judaism, Jewish Lights, 2000.
• The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, Jewish Lights, 1997.
• Conservative Judaism: The New Century, Behrman House, 1993.
• Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, Jewish Publication Society, 1992.
• Gabriel Marcel on Religious Knowledge, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1980.

• 1991: National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish Thought category for Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew[2]

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

• The Problematics of Myth
• Torah From Terror (Edited with Rabbi Jason Miller)
• Neil Gillman at the Jewish Theological Seminary.