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Book Zionism   s Redemptions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arieh Saposnik
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-11-18
  • ISBN : 1009041983
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Zionism s Redemptions written by Arieh Saposnik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Arieh Saposnik examines the complicated relations between nationalism and religious (and non-religious) redemptive traditions through the case study of Zionism. He provides a new framework for understanding the central ideas of this movement and its relationship to traditional Jewish ideas, Christian thought, and modern secular messianisms. Providing a longue-durée and broad view of the central themes and motivations in the making of Zionism, Saposnik connects its intellectual history with the concrete development of the Zionist project in Israel in its cultural, social, and political history. Saposnik demonstrates how Zionism offers lessons for a politics in which human perfectibility continues to serve as a guiding light and as a counter-narrative to the contemporary politics of self-interest, self-promotion and 'post-truth.' This is a study that bears implications for our understanding of modernity, of space and place, history and historical trajectories, and the place of Jews and Judaism in the modern world.

Book Rebels and Exiles

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  • Author : Matthew S. Harmon
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2020-10-27
  • ISBN : 0830843825
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Rebels and Exiles written by Matthew S. Harmon and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all share an experience of exile—of longing for our true home. In this ESBT volume, Matthew S. Harmon explores how the theme of sin and exile is developed throughout Scripture, tracing a common pattern of human rebellion, God's judgment, and the hope of restored relationship, beginning with the first humans and concluding with the end of exile in a new creation.

Book Enduring Exile

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  • Author : Martien Halvorson-Taylor
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2010-12-17
  • ISBN : 9004203710
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Enduring Exile written by Martien Halvorson-Taylor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the composition and redaction of Jeremiah 30–31, Isaiah 40–66, and Zechariah 1–8, this book examines how the Babylonian exile became a Second Temple metaphor for political disenfranchisement, social inequality, and alienation from YHWH.

Book Hasidic Commentary on the Torah

Download or read book Hasidic Commentary on the Torah written by Ora Wiskind–Elper and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hasidism, a movement of religious awakening and social reform, originated in the mid-eighteenth century. After two and a half centuries of crisis, upheaval, and renewal, it remains a vibrant way of life and a compelling aspect of Jewish experience. This book explores the profound intellectual and religious issues that the hasidic masters raised in their Torah commentary, and brings to the fore the living qualities of their sermons.

Book Exile and the Jews

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  • Author : Nancy E. Berg
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 0827619189
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Exile and the Jews written by Nancy E. Berg and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought

Download or read book The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought written by Katell Berthelot and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling analysis of Jewish thought from ancient times to the present on the issue of the gift of the land of Israel and the fate of the Canaanites.

Book Truths Desired by God

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  • Author : Meir Tamari
  • Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9789652294517
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Truths Desired by God written by Meir Tamari and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the mounting interest in traditional Jewish texts, classes abound in Chumash, Talmud, Tehillim, and the Megillot. Yet the books of Nevi im through which a major part of Judaism s special message is transmitted have been largely overlooked. Using the weekly haftarah as his entry, renowned author Dr. Meir Tamari tackles this challenge, offering original insights and bringing together commentators from the span of Jewish history.

Book A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal

Download or read book A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal written by Steven M. Studebaker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Christians have a stake in the sustainability and success of core cultural values of the West in general and America in particular. Steven M. Studebaker considers Western and American decline from a theological and, specifically, Pentecostal perspective. The volume proposes and develops a Pentecostal political theology that can be used to address and reframe Christian political identity in the United States. Studebaker asserts that American Christians are currently not properly engaged in preventing America’s decline or halting the shifts in its core values. The problem, he suggests, is that American Christianity not only gives little thought to the state of the nation beyond a handful of moral issues like abortion, but its popular political theologies lead Christians to think of themselves more as aliens than as citizens. This book posits that the proposed Pentecostal political theology would help American Christians view themselves as citizens and better recognize their stake in the renewal of their nation. The foundation of this proposed political theology is a pneumatological narrative of renewal—a biblical narrative of the Spirit that begins with creation, proceeds through Incarnation and Pentecost, and culminates in the new creation and everlasting kingdom of God. This narrative provides the foundation for a political theology that speaks to the issues of Christian political identity and encourages Christian political participation.

Book Exile and redemption through the eyes of the Spanish exiles

Download or read book Exile and redemption through the eyes of the Spanish exiles written by Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mystical Origins of Hasidism

Download or read book The Mystical Origins of Hasidism written by Rachel Elior and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This very accessible introduction to hasidism as a movement opens a new window on its mystical underpinnings. It discusses the origins and dissemination of hasidism and the literature that facilitated this; the theological basis of hasidism and the mystical significance of the tsadik; the major figures of hasidism; and the complex links to kabbalah and Sabbatianism. The discussion of the intellectual and social implications highlights the eighteenth century as a key period in modern Jewish history.

Book From Exile to Redemption

Download or read book From Exile to Redemption written by Grace Farrell Lee and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Farrell Lee, a Singer story often takes the form of a meditation, with the dilemma of life and death the frequent core of that meditation. The protagonist seeks a source of meaning that might give significance to life; the human predicament is to be exiled from that source of meaning.More than other contemporary writers, Singer uses biblical images to confront questions of meaning, with the Kabbalah serving as subtext for much of his work. Singer secularizes religious material, equating the biblical image of a God who hides his face and the modern image of a cosmos empty of transcendent meaning.Singer is distinguished from other contemporary writers because in the midst of his images of secular and biblical despair shines a ray of hope. He sees value in seeking answers, noting that to find answers to the essential questions one must be redeemed from exile."

Book The Scaffolding of Sovereignty

Download or read book The Scaffolding of Sovereignty written by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a bridge between approaches, periods, and areas, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed, the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed, and the images and ideas on which it rests. The essays in The Scaffolding of Sovereignty reveal that sovereignty has always been supported, complemented, and enforced by a complex aesthetic and intellectual scaffolding. This collection takes a multidisciplinary approach to investigating the concept on a global scale, ranging from an account of a Manchu emperor building a mosque to a discussion of the continuing power of Lenin’s corpse, from an analysis of the death of kings in classical Greek tragedy to an exploration of the imagery of “the people” in the Age of Revolutions. Across seventeen chapters that closely study specific historical regimes and conflicts, the book’s contributors examine intersections of authority, power, theatricality, science and medicine, jurisdiction, rulership, human rights, scholarship, religious and popular ideas, and international legal thought that support or undermine different instances of sovereign power and its representations.

Book Exodus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Annette Hoffmann
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2020-01-20
  • ISBN : 3110618540
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Exodus written by Annette Hoffmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific debates on border crossings and cultural exchange between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have much increased over the last decades. Within this context, however, little attention has been given to the biblical Exodus, which not only plays a pivotal role in the Abrahamic religions, but also is a master narrative of a border crossing in itself. Sea and desert are spaces of liminality and transit in more than just a geographical sense. Their passage includes a transition to freedom and initiation into a new divine community, an encounter with God and an entry into the Age of law. The volume gathers twelve articles written by leading specialists in Jewish and Islamic Studies, Theology and Literature, Art and Film history, dedicated to the transitional aspects within the Exodus narrative. Bringing these studies together, the volume takes a double approach, one that is both comparative and intercultural. How do Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts and images read and retell the various border crossings in the Exodus story, and on what levels do they interrelate? By raising these questions the volume aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of contact points between the various traditions.

Book To Liberate and Redeem

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  • Author : Edward LeRoy Long
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2009-12-01
  • ISBN : 1608991733
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book To Liberate and Redeem written by Edward LeRoy Long and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In To Liberate and Redeem, scholar Edward LeRoy Long Jr. surveys the full biblical narrative--setting the context by beginning with the oppression of Israel's enslavement and the Exodus liberation, then looking back to the Creation and forward to Christ, Paul, and the early church. This original approach demonstrates how the unfolding drama of the Bible is marked by those who need liberation because they are trapped in oppressive structures and those who, once freed, must faithfully construct communities of redemption so as not to become oppressors themselves. From this basis Long explores how present-day moral decisions can be informed by studying the ways in which our biblical forebears wrestled with concerns similar to our own while standing in faithful responsiveness to God.

Book Settings of Silver

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  • Author : Stephen M. Wylen
  • Publisher : Paulist Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780809139606
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Settings of Silver written by Stephen M. Wylen and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of Judaism, its history, beliefs, practices and customs, branches and sects, from its founding to the present day.

Book The Writings of RABASH   Letters Volume One

Download or read book The Writings of RABASH Letters Volume One written by Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (RABASH) and published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (RABASH), the firstborn son and successor of Rav Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam), author of the Sulam (Ladder) commentary on The Book of Zohar, provide us with insights that connect the wisdom of Kabbalah to our human experience. These books disclose the profound knowledge of human nature that the RABASH possessed, and take us on a journey to our own souls. As we absorb the texts, wefind that Kabbalah is not some cryptic occultism, but a time-tested method to understand ourselves and improve our lives and the world around us.

Book Exile s Redemption

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lee Dunning
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-06-17
  • ISBN : 9781500513313
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Exile s Redemption written by Lee Dunning and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After four hundred years, isolated from the rest of the world, the Elven Nation has finally reestablished a presence on the mainland of Allasea. With their return, the elves have built the city of Second Home, a place of learning, open to all who would come to study. For Raven, a young Shadow Elf historian, and one of the few elves born on the mainland, it's an opportunity for her to research the truth about the first child born to the elves, Umbral K'hul, a god-like boy whose attempted patricide and subsequent banishment triggered a civil war that fractured the Elven Nation. A more sinister presence sees the elves' return as a chance to strike, filling the beautiful city with an army of chaos and death. But along with the demons, strides another: after ten thousand years of exile, Umbral K'hul has escaped his prison. Now, the elves' greatest pariah and an untested heroine must face an enemy bent on genocide. In the process they will discover secrets their people have kept since the elves established First Home. Secrets which could prove even more devastating than the demons