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The Jews As A Chosen People
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Author : S. Leyla Gurkan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-12-05
The Jews As A Chosen People written by S. Leyla Gurkan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-05 with Religion categories.
The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, the author seeks to give a better understanding of this central doctrine of the Jewish religion. She shows that although the idea of chosenness has been central to Judaism and Jewish self-definition, it has not been carried to the present day in the same form. Instead it has gone through constant change, depending on who is employing it, against what sort of background, and for what purpose. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the doctrine of chosenness that appear in Ancient, Modern, and Post-Holocaust periods, the dominant themes of ‘Holiness’, ‘Mission’, and ‘Survival’ are identified in each respective period. The theological, philosophical, and sociological dimensions of the question of Jewish chosenness are thus examined in their historical context, as responses to the challenges of Christianity, Modernity, and the Holocaust in particular. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Jewish Studies, the Holocaust, religion and theology.
The Jews As A Chosen People
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Author : S. Leyla Gurkan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-12-05
The Jews As A Chosen People written by S. Leyla Gurkan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-05 with Religion categories.
The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, the author seeks to give a better understanding of this central doctrine of the Jewish religion. She shows that although the idea of chosenness has been central to Judaism and Jewish self-definition, it has not been carried to the present day in the same form. Instead it has gone through constant change, depending on who is employing it, against what sort of background, and for what purpose. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the doctrine of chosenness that appear in Ancient, Modern, and Post-Holocaust periods, the dominant themes of ‘Holiness’, ‘Mission’, and ‘Survival’ are identified in each respective period. The theological, philosophical, and sociological dimensions of the question of Jewish chosenness are thus examined in their historical context, as responses to the challenges of Christianity, Modernity, and the Holocaust in particular. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Jewish Studies, the Holocaust, religion and theology.
The Chosen People
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Author : John Allegro
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2015-03-06
The Chosen People written by John Allegro and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-06 with Religion categories.
The Chosen People tells the history of the Jews from the conquest of Jersualem by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 587 B.C.E. to the Second Jewish Revolt of C.E. 132. John Allegro bases his account on traditional texts — books of the Old Testament, Josephus, Philo Judaeus, Dio Cassius, and others — and sets out the complicated parade of plots, counter-plots, betrayals, and insurrections in a brisk and highly readable sequence. His main theme is how the conception of the Jewish nation as a divinely chosen race was planted as a political ambition among the exiled Jews. Bringing together old customs and stories, the idea was fired by the longing of the Babylonian Jews for their traditional homeland. Many of them grew prosperous outside Palestine, and their wealthy communities manipulated the wish for identity in the idea of an exclusive Judaism embodied as a political state and fighting for autonomy against local and imperial neighbors — more dream than fact. The author writes that “When the ‘new Judaism' came to be hammered out after the return from captivity, it was around these ancient customs and a historicized mythology that it was fashioned.” The religion was devised not, as popularly presented, by gift of the desert god Yahweh who had manifested himself in opposition to the Canaanite fertility god Baal but by reinterpreting the Sumerian idea of a life-giving god over many generations. For there was no fundamental opposition — the god-names originally meant the same. This second edition features a new introduction by James M. Donovan.
The Chosen People
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Author : A. Chadwick Thornhill
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2015-10-29
The Chosen People written by A. Chadwick Thornhill and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-29 with Religion categories.
One of the central touchstones of Second Temple Judaism is election. The Jews considered themselves a people set apart for God?s special purpose. So it is not surprising that this concept plays such an important role in Pauline theology. In this careful and provocative study, Chad Thornhill considers how Second Temple understandings of election influenced key Pauline texts. Thornhill seeks to establish the thought patterns of the ancient texts regarding election, with sensitivity to social, historical and literary factors. He carefully considers questions of "extent" (ethnic/national or remnant), the relationship to the individual (corporate or individual in focus), and the relationship to salvation (divine/human agency and the presence of "conditions"). Thornhill looks at the markers or conditions that defined various groups, and considers whether election was viewed by ancient authors as merited, given graciously or both. Thorough and measured, the author contends that individual election is not usually associated with a "soteriological" status but rather with the quality of the individual (or sometimes group) in view—the collective entity is in view in the Jewish notion of election. While Paul is certainly able to move beyond these categories, Thornhill shows how he too follows these patterns.
The Chosen People In An Almost Chosen Nation
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Author : Richard John Neuhaus
language : en
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Release Date : 2002
The Chosen People In An Almost Chosen Nation written by Richard John Neuhaus and has been published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This important volume explores the state of contemporary Jewish life and the unprecedented opportunity for meaningful Jewish-Christian dialogue that America's unique cultural context presents. Selected from the pages of "First Things and written by recognized authors almost all of whom are Jewish the essays and commentaries gathered here take up the broad array of viewpoints, questions, and disputes that comprise the story of Judaism in America. Philosophy, law, psychology, history, anti-Semitism, proselytism, intermarriage, public policy, the State of Israel, and whether Christians can be trusted these and other subjects are addressed in lively, diverse, and frequently provocative ways. Especially valuable are two concluding documents on Jewish-Christian dialogue, one a Jewish statement on Christians and Christianity, the other a reflection on Christians, Jews, and anti-Semitism by the editors of "First Things. For Christian readers, this book will be an enlightening introduction to the distinctive Jewish world. For Jewish readers, this book is an invitation to reflect thoughtfully on the ongoing experience of living as a chosen people in an almost chosen nation. CONTRIBUTORS: Elliot Abrams Hadley Arkes Matthew Berke Midge Decter Marc Gellman Milton Himmelfarb Clifford E. Librach Stephen Miller Alan L. Mittleman Richard John Neuhaus David Novak Jakob J. Petuchowski Isaac C. Rottenberg Jonathan D. Sarna Edward S. Shapiro David Singer Marc D. Stern Aaron Wildavsky Ruth R. Wisse Nicholas Wolfson
The Chosen People
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Author : Evgeniĭ Nikolaevich Chirikov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
The Chosen People written by Evgeniĭ Nikolaevich Chirikov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Anarchism categories.
Evangelizing The Chosen People
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Author : Yaakov Ariel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003-06-19
Evangelizing The Chosen People written by Yaakov Ariel and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-19 with Religion categories.
With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day. Based on unprecedented research in missionary archives as well as Jewish writings, the book analyzes the theology and activities of both the missions and the converts and describes the reactions of the Jewish community, which in turn helped to shape the evangelical activity directed toward it. Ariel delineates three successive waves of evangelism, the first directed toward poor Jewish immigrants, the second toward American-born Jews trying to assimilate, and the third toward Jewish baby boomers influenced by the counterculture of the Vietnam War era. After World War II, the missionary impulse became almost exclusively the realm of conservative evangelicals, as the more liberal segments of American Christianity took the path of interfaith dialogue. As Ariel shows, these missionary efforts have profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish relations. Jews have seen the missionary movement as a continuation of attempts to delegitimize Judaism and to do away with Jews through assimilation or annihilation. But to conservative evangelical Christians, who support the State of Israel, evangelizing Jews is a manifestation of goodwill toward them.
The Election Of Israel
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Author : David Novak
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-05-04
The Election Of Israel written by David Novak and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-05-04 with Religion categories.
In this book, David Novak conducts an historical, philosophical and theological reflection on the central Jewish doctrine of Israel's election by God, also known as the idea of the chosen people. Historically, he analyses the great change in modern Jewish thought brought about by Spinoza's inversion of the doctrine: that it was not God who elected Israel, but Israel who elected God. The development of that inversion is illustrated by the thought of the German philosopher-theologian, Hermann Cohen. Philosophically, Novak explores the ontological implications of the two differing theologies of election. Theologically, he argues for the correlation of election and revelation, and maintains that a theology of election is required in order to deal with two central questions, namely: who are the Jews, and how are Jews to be related to the world? The constructive picture which results leads to a fresh understanding of Jewish modernity.
Chosen People From The Caucasus
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Author : Michael Bradley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Chosen People From The Caucasus written by Michael Bradley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Aggressiveness categories.
Contends the people calling themselves Jews exhibited Neanderthal aggressive traits in the history of the conquest of the Americas, and in the transatlantic slave trade.
The Jews As A Chosen People
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Author : Salime Leyla Gürkan
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2009
The Jews As A Chosen People written by Salime Leyla Gürkan and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, the author seeks to give a better understanding of this central doctrine of the Jewish religion. She shows that although the idea of chosenness has been central to Judaism and Jewish self-definition, it has not been carried to the present day in the same form. Instead it has gone through constant change, depending on who is employing it, against what sort of background, and for what purpose. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the doctrine of chosenness that appear in Ancient, Modern, and Post-Holocaust periods, the dominant themes of 'Holiness', 'Mission', and 'Survival' are identified in each respective period. The theological, philosophical, and sociological dimensions of the question of Jewish chosenness are thus examined in their historical context, as responses to the challenges of Christianity, Modernity, and the Holocaust in particular. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Jewish Studies, the Holocaust, religion and theology.