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Book Kinship and Consent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Judah Elazar
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780819128010
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Kinship and Consent written by Daniel Judah Elazar and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1983 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with the Center for Jewish Community Studies, this volume is based on the finest fruits of a summer Colloquium of The Institute for Judaism and Contemporary Thought held at the Kibbutz Lavi in Israel. Explores Jewish political life and thought from the Biblical period to the present in order to ascertain the content and character of the Jewish political tradition and its relevance for our time.

Book Kinship and Consent

Download or read book Kinship and Consent written by Daniel L. Elazar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major dimension of modern Jewish life has been the revival of conscious political activity on the part of the Jewish people, whether through reestablishment of the State of Israel, new forms of diaspora community organization, or the common Jewish fight against anti-Semitism. Precisely because contemporary Jewry has moved increasingly toward self

Book The Jewish Political Tradition

Download or read book The Jewish Political Tradition written by Michael Walzer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book launches a landmark four-volume collaborative work exploring the political thought of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present. The texts and commentaries in Volume I address the basic question of who ought to rule the community."--Descripción del editor.

Book Covenant in the Jewish Political Tradition

Download or read book Covenant in the Jewish Political Tradition written by Daniel Judah Elazar and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jewish Political Tradition

Download or read book The Jewish Political Tradition written by Michael Walzer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book launches a landmark four-volume collaborative work exploring the political thought of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present. Each volume includes a selection of texts--from the Bible and Talmud, midrashic literature, legal responsa, treatises, and pamphlets--annotated for modern readers and accompanied by new commentaries written by eminent philosophers, lawyers, political theorists, and other scholars working in different fields of Jewish studies. These contributors join the arguments of the texts, agreeing or disagreeing, elaborating, refining, qualifying, and sometimes repudiating the political views of the original authors. The series brings the little-known and unexplored Jewish tradition of political thinking and writing into the light, showing where and how it resonates in the state of Israel, the chief diaspora settlements, and, more broadly, modern political experience. This first volume, Authority, addresses the basic question of who ought to rule the community: What claims to rule have been put forward from the time of the exodus from Egypt to the establishment of the state of Israel? How are such claims disputed and defended? What constitutes legitimate authority? The authors discuss the authority of God, then the claims of kings, priests, prophets, rabbis, lay leaders, gentile rulers (during the years of the exile), and the Israeli state. The volume concludes with several perspectives on the issue of whether a modern state can be both Jewish and democratic. Forthcoming volumes will address the themes of membership, community, and political vision. Among the contributors to this volume: Amy Gutmann Moshe Halbertal David Hartman Moshe Idel Sanford Levinson Susan Neiman Hilary Putnam Joseph Raz Michael Sandel Allan Silver Yael Tamir

Book Covenant as the Basis of the Jewish Political Tradition

Download or read book Covenant as the Basis of the Jewish Political Tradition written by Daniel Judah Elazar and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Covenant   Polity in Biblical Israel

Download or read book Covenant Polity in Biblical Israel written by Daniel J. Elazar and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first volume of a trilogy, Daniel J. Elazar addresses political uses of the idea of covenant, the tradition that has adhered to that idea, and the political arrangements that flow from it, Among the topics covered are covenant as a political concept, the Bible as a political commentary, the post-biblical tradition, medieval covenant theory, and Jewish political culture.

Book Beautiful Union

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joshua Ryan Butler
  • Publisher : Multnomah
  • Release : 2023-04-11
  • ISBN : 059344504X
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Beautiful Union written by Joshua Ryan Butler and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful call for Christians to understand sex as a window into God's story of redemption, and a validating guide to living with authentic love in a changing culture—from the influential pastor and author of The Skeletons in God’s Closet. Beautiful isn’t likely the first word that comes to mind when we think about sex. Our reactions are as varied as our experiences and backgrounds. Perhaps the word brings up past baggage. Perhaps it holds yearning for a dream that has never come true. Maybe we would rather not talk about it. Maybe it’s all we want to talk about. Around us, our culture is divided by this topic. On one side, “progressive” voices seek to dismantle historic Christian teachings to fit current norms. On the other side, “conservative” voices can reinforce messages of shame, judgement, and repression. Beautiful Union offers a third way, one that is both true and beautiful. It gives us a provocative, positive look into the deepest Christian understanding of sex . . . and what sex reveals about God, our world, and even ourselves. Through biblical teaching and livable, joyful answers to our tough questions about sexuality, author and pastor Joshua Ryan Butler shows how sex illuminates the structure of creation, the nature of salvation, the abundance of God’s kingdom, and God’s heartbeat for the world. Discover afresh the beautiful invitation of our sexuality . . . as God intended it to be.

Book The Idea of the Covenant  the Chosenness of the People  and the Status of Personality in the Biblical Tradition

Download or read book The Idea of the Covenant the Chosenness of the People and the Status of Personality in the Biblical Tradition written by Leonide S. Blickshtein and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In God s Shadow

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  • Author : Michael Walzer
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2012-06-05
  • ISBN : 0300182511
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book In God s Shadow written by Michael Walzer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of reading and thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible. Attentive to nuance while engagingly straightforward, Walzer examines the commentary of the ancient biblical writers and discusses the implications for such urgent modern topics as the nature of political society, hierarchy and justice, the use of political power, the justification for and rules of warfare, and the responsibilities of clerical figures, monarchs, and their subjects./divDIV DIVBecause there are many biblical writers, and because they represent different political views, pluralism is a central feature of biblical politics, Walzer observes. Yet pluralism is never explicitly defended in the Bible—indeed it couldn't be defended since God's word is one. There is, however, an anti-political teaching which recurs in biblical texts: if you have faith in God, you have no need for particular political institutions or prudent political leaders or deliberative assemblies or loyal citizens. And, Walzer finds a strong moral teaching common to the Bible's authors. He identifies God's decree for ethics and investigates its implications for just policymaking in our own times./div

Book Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel

Download or read book Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel written by Daniel Elazar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first volume of a trilogy, Daniel J. Elazar addresses political uses of the idea of covenant, the tradition that has adhered to that idea, and the political arrangements that flow from it, Among the topics covered are covenant as a political concept, the Bible as a political commentary, the post-biblical tradition, medieval covenant theory, and Jewish political culture.

Book Covenant and Freedom in the Jewish Political Tradition

Download or read book Covenant and Freedom in the Jewish Political Tradition written by Daniel Judah Elazar and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventing God s Law

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  • Author : David P. Wright
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009-09-03
  • ISBN : 0199885397
  • Pages : 604 pages

Download or read book Inventing God s Law written by David P. Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most scholars believe that the numerous similarities between the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23-23:19) and Mesopotamian law collections, especially the Laws of Hammurabi, which date to around 1750 BCE, are due to oral tradition that extended from the second to the first millennium. This book offers a fundamentally new understanding of the Covenant Code, arguing that it depends directly and primarily upon the Laws of Hammurabi and that the use of this source text occurred during the Neo-Assyrian period, sometime between 740-640 BCE, when Mesopotamia exerted strong and continuous political and cultural influence over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and a time when the Laws of Hammurabi were actively copied in Mesopotamia as a literary-canonical text. The study offers significant new evidence demonstrating that a model of literary dependence is the only viable explanation for the work. It further examines the compositional logic used in transforming the source text to produce the Covenant Code, thus providing a commentary to the biblical composition from the new theoretical perspective. This analysis shows that the Covenant Code is primarily a creative academic work rather than a repository of laws practiced by Israelites or Judeans over the course of their history. The Covenant Code, too, is an ideological work, which transformed a paradigmatic and prestigious legal text of Israel's and Judah's imperial overlords into a statement symbolically countering foreign hegemony. The study goes further to study the relationship of the Covenant Code to the narrative of the book of Exodus and explores how this may relate to the development of the Pentateuch as a whole.

Book The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah

Download or read book The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah written by Alan Mittleman and published by Religion, Politics, and Society in the New Millennium. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of political theorist Alan L. Mittleman's captivating new book is drawn from the patriarch Jacob's blessing to his children and grandchildren. The blessing contains the promise that Judah will become a royal house, perhaps forever. Kings, of course, ceased in Israel, but politics did not. Regime replaced regime. National independence was compromised and lost, regained and lost again. Yet the attention to things political was never lost. Old texts were applied to new political realities. Political awareness and thought, constantly transformed and adapted to new historical exigencies, persisted among the Jews. In The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah, Mittleman looks at some of the central problems of political philosophy--such as fundamental rights and the common good--from the point of view of rabbinic Judaism. At the same time, he considers conceptual issues in Judaism--such as covenant and tradition--from the perspective of political philosophy. Mittleman's sources range from the ancient rabbis to contemporary political theorists, making this volume an important one for courses and research in both Jewish studies and political theory.

Book Covenant and Constitutionalism

Download or read book Covenant and Constitutionalism written by Daniel Elazar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the trends and the developing relationships of constitutionalism and covenant that ultimately led to the transformation of the latter into the former. Elazar explores the paths that emerged out of the constitutionalized covenantal tradition in Europe such as federalism, communitarianism, and the cooperative movement.

Book Workshop on the Covenant Idea and the Jewish Political Tradition

Download or read book Workshop on the Covenant Idea and the Jewish Political Tradition written by Bar-Ilan University. Dept. of Political Studied and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: