Herausgeber:: Benjamin Pollock / Shaul Magid / Martin Kavka / Kenneth Seeskin / Emily Kopley / Shai Held / David Shatz / Motti Inbari / Elisheva Carlebach / Annette Reed / Matt Goldish / Menachem Kellner / Cosana Eram
Verlag:: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Erschienen:: 28.11.2014
Seitenanzahl:: 442
ISBN:: 0253014778
EAN:: 9780253014771
Sprache:: Englisch
Format:: EPUB
Schutz:: Adobe-DRM

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Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism

<p>Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.</p>