Author: Michael L. Morgan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253014778
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
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.
Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism
Author: Michael L. Morgan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253014778
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253014778
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
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.
The Messianic Idea in Judaism
Author: Gershom Scholem
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 030778908X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
An insightful collection of essays on the Kabbalah and Jewish spirituality—from the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism. Gershom Scholem was the master builder of historical studies of the Kabbalah. When he began to work on this neglected field, the few who studied these texts were either amateurs who were looking for occult wisdom, or old-style Kabbalists who were seeking guidance on their spiritual journeys. His work broke with the outlook of the scholars of the previous century in Judaica—die Wissenschaft des Judentums, the Science of Judaism—whose orientation he rejected, calling their “disregard for the most vital aspects of the Jewish people as a collective entity: a form of “censorship of the Jewish past.” The major founders of modern Jewish historical studies in the nineteenth century, Leopold Zunz and Abraham Geiger, had ignored the Kabbalah; it did not fit into their account of the Jewish religion as rational and worthy of respect by “enlightened” minds. The only exception was the historian Heinrich Graetz. He had paid substantial attention to its texts and to their most explosive exponent, the false Messiah Sabbatai Zevi, but Graetz had depicted the Kabbalah and all that flowed from it as an unworthy revolt from the underground of Jewish life against its reasonable, law-abiding, and learned mainstream. Scholem conducted a continuing polemic with Zunz, Geiger, and Graetz by bringing into view a Jewish past more varied, more vital, and more interesting than any idealized portrait could reveal. —from the Foreword by Arthur Hertzberg, 1995
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 030778908X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
An insightful collection of essays on the Kabbalah and Jewish spirituality—from the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism. Gershom Scholem was the master builder of historical studies of the Kabbalah. When he began to work on this neglected field, the few who studied these texts were either amateurs who were looking for occult wisdom, or old-style Kabbalists who were seeking guidance on their spiritual journeys. His work broke with the outlook of the scholars of the previous century in Judaica—die Wissenschaft des Judentums, the Science of Judaism—whose orientation he rejected, calling their “disregard for the most vital aspects of the Jewish people as a collective entity: a form of “censorship of the Jewish past.” The major founders of modern Jewish historical studies in the nineteenth century, Leopold Zunz and Abraham Geiger, had ignored the Kabbalah; it did not fit into their account of the Jewish religion as rational and worthy of respect by “enlightened” minds. The only exception was the historian Heinrich Graetz. He had paid substantial attention to its texts and to their most explosive exponent, the false Messiah Sabbatai Zevi, but Graetz had depicted the Kabbalah and all that flowed from it as an unworthy revolt from the underground of Jewish life against its reasonable, law-abiding, and learned mainstream. Scholem conducted a continuing polemic with Zunz, Geiger, and Graetz by bringing into view a Jewish past more varied, more vital, and more interesting than any idealized portrait could reveal. —from the Foreword by Arthur Hertzberg, 1995
The Messianic Idea in Judaism
Author: Gershom G. Scholem
Publisher:
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Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Messianic Idea in Judaism
The Messiah Idea in Jewish History
Author: Julius Hillel Greenstone
Publisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Publisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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The Messianic Idea in Israel
Author: Joseph Klausner
Publisher: London : Allen and Unwin
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher: London : Allen and Unwin
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Messianic Idea in Judaism
Author: Simeon Singer
Publisher:
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Category : Messiah
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Publisher:
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Category : Messiah
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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The Messianic Idea and Its Influence on Jewish Ethics
Author: D. Wasserzug
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Category : Ethics, Jewish
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Publisher:
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Category : Ethics, Jewish
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality
Author: Gershom Scholem
Publisher: Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith
ISBN: 9780686951414
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith
ISBN: 9780686951414
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Messianic Mystics
Author: Moshe Idel
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300082883
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
One of the worl'ds leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300082883
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
One of the worl'ds leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience.