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Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (455 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253014771
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking the Messianic Idea in JudaismDDC classification:
  • 296.3/36
LOC classification:
  • BM625.R48 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Blurred Lines and Open Secrets in Early Jewish Messianism -- 1. Messianism between Judaism and Christianity -- 2. He That Cometh Out: On How to Disclose a Messianic Secret -- Part II. Between Here and Eternity in Medieval Judaism -- 3. Maimonides and the Idea of a Deflationary Messiah -- 4. "And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight": Twisted Messianic Visions, and a Maimonidean Corrective -- 5. Seeking the Symmetry of Time: The Messianic Age in Medieval Chronology -- Part III. Messianism and Ethics in Modern Jewish Thought -- 6. Messianism and Ethics -- 7. To Infinity and Beyond: Cohen and Rosenzweig on Comportment toward Redemption -- 8. Levinas and Messianism -- Part IV. Politics and Anti-politics in Contemporary Jewish Messianism -- 9. What Zvi Yehudah Kook Wrought: The Theopolitical Radicalization of Religious Zionism -- 10. Messianic Religious Zionism and the Reintroduction of Sacrifice: The Case of the Temple Institute -- 11. The Muted Messiah: The Aversion to Messianic Forms of Zionism in Modern Orthodox Thought -- 12. The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking Chabad Messianism -- Part V. Messianism between Religious and Secular Imagination -- 13. Isadore Isou's Messianism Awry -- 14. Arthur A. Cohen's Messianic Fiction -- 15. Reading Messianically with Gershom Scholem -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Blurred Lines and Open Secrets in Early Jewish Messianism -- 1. Messianism between Judaism and Christianity -- 2. He That Cometh Out: On How to Disclose a Messianic Secret -- Part II. Between Here and Eternity in Medieval Judaism -- 3. Maimonides and the Idea of a Deflationary Messiah -- 4. "And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight": Twisted Messianic Visions, and a Maimonidean Corrective -- 5. Seeking the Symmetry of Time: The Messianic Age in Medieval Chronology -- Part III. Messianism and Ethics in Modern Jewish Thought -- 6. Messianism and Ethics -- 7. To Infinity and Beyond: Cohen and Rosenzweig on Comportment toward Redemption -- 8. Levinas and Messianism -- Part IV. Politics and Anti-politics in Contemporary Jewish Messianism -- 9. What Zvi Yehudah Kook Wrought: The Theopolitical Radicalization of Religious Zionism -- 10. Messianic Religious Zionism and the Reintroduction of Sacrifice: The Case of the Temple Institute -- 11. The Muted Messiah: The Aversion to Messianic Forms of Zionism in Modern Orthodox Thought -- 12. The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking Chabad Messianism -- Part V. Messianism between Religious and Secular Imagination -- 13. Isadore Isou's Messianism Awry -- 14. Arthur A. Cohen's Messianic Fiction -- 15. Reading Messianically with Gershom Scholem -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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.

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