Daniel H. Frank 
A People Apart [PDF ebook] 
Chosenness and Ritual in Jewish Philosophical Thought

Introduction
Part 1 Choseness
Chapter 1 The Election of Israel: Outline of a Philosophical Analysis
David Novak
Chapter 2 Chosenness, Not Chauvinism: Maimonides on the Chosen people
Menachem Kellner
Response to Menachem Kellner
Norbert M. Samuelson
Reply to Norbert Samuelson
Menachem Kellner
Chapter 3 Judaism and Chosenness: On Some Controversial Aspects from Spinoza to Contemporary Jewish Thought
Ze’ev Levy
Part 2 Ritual
Chapter 4 Rational Law / Ritual Law
L. E. Goodman
Chapter 5 Mitzvah as Metaphor
Moshe Sokol
Chapter 6 Jewish Ritual and the Experience of ‘Rootedness’
Joshua L. Golding
Chapter 7 The Concept of Worship in Judaism
Norbert M. Samuelson
Contributors
Index

Daniel H. Frank is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He is the editor of
Autonomy and Judaism: The Individual and the Community in Jewish Philosophical Thought.