Rethinking The Messianic Idea In Judaism

Author : Michael L. Morgan,Steven Weitzman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253014771

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Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism by Michael L. Morgan,Steven Weitzman Pdf

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.

Author : Gershom Scholem
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307789082

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The Messianic Idea in Judaism by Gershom Scholem Pdf

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

Author : Simeon Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Messiah
ISBN : NLI:2165728-10

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The Messianic Idea in Judaism by Simeon Singer Pdf

Author : Julius H. Greenstone
Publisher : Lethe Press
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781590211687

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The Messiah Idea in Jewish History by Julius H. Greenstone Pdf

Rabbi Greenstone's valued work, The Messiah Idea in Jewish History, offers a detailed survey, from Biblical times down to the religious reform movements and Zionism of the late 19th century, of messianic beliefs in Judaism. As Greenstone's introduction mentions: "The belief in the coming of the Messiah, the treasured hope of the Jew throughout all the centuries of misery and persectuion, is regarded by most Jewish thinkers as a dogma of Judaism." The author pays special attention to Talmudic and Midrashic sources, to the work of philosophers and Kabbalists, as well as the historical conditions, to elucidate the influences messianism had on Jewish society over the centuries.

Author : Gershom Scholem
Publisher : Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0686951417

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Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality by Gershom Scholem Pdf

Author : Julius Hillel Greenstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Jews
ISBN : NYPL:33433060861923

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The Messiah Idea in Jewish History by Julius Hillel Greenstone Pdf

Author : Joseph Klausner
Publisher : London : Allen and Unwin
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Judaism
ISBN : UCSD:31822005454863

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The Messianic Idea in Israel by Joseph Klausner Pdf

Author : J. Thomas Hewitt
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161592287

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Messiah and Scripture by J. Thomas Hewitt Pdf

"J. Thomas Hewitt demonstrates how Paul's development and uses of the expression "in Christ" arise from his messianic intepretation of scriptures concerning Abraham's seed and Daniel's "son of man". This type of creative scriptural interpretation is a common trait of ancient Jewish messiah texts." --

Author : Solomon Schindler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : UCAL:$B285335

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Messianic Expectations and Modern Judaism by Solomon Schindler Pdf

Author : Robert N. Levine
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580232555

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There Is No Messiah--And You're It by Robert N. Levine Pdf

The coming of the messiah is anticipated by millions of people of many faiths as the ultimate salve for our spiritual lives and as a way to finally make the world a better place. There Is No Messiah?and You?re It examines the history of messianic hope and anticipation, its evolution in Judaism and Jewish history, and other interpretations of ?messiah? that shed new light on what it means to usher in the ?kingdom of God.? This fascinating book is our call to see ourselves as the fulfillment of, not the anticipators of, messianic change. Drawing from the Bible, the Talmud, rabbinic sources, and modern-day scholars, Rabbi Levine provides a fascinating understanding of messianic vision, as well as false messiahs throughout Jewish history. He challenges the powerful idea of messiah that has survived in the heart and ethos of the Jewish people, and reveals the immediacy of messianic presence in our day.

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300082886

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Messianic Mystics by Moshe Idel Pdf

One of the worl'ds leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience.

Author : Rebecca Braun,Benedict Schofield
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789627312

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Transnational German Studies by Rebecca Braun,Benedict Schofield Pdf

This volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities underpinning German-language culture and history as these travel right around the globe. Contributions discuss the inherent cross-pollination of different languages, times, places and notions of identity within German-language cultures and the ways in which their construction and circulation cannot be contained by national or linguistic borders. In doing so, it is not the aim of the volume to provide a compendium of existing transnational approaches to German Studies or to offer its readers a series of survey chapters on different fields of study to date. Instead, it offers novel research-led chapters that pose a question, a problem or an issue through which contemporary and historical transcultural and transnational processes can be seen at work. Accordingly, each essay isolates a specific area of study and opens it up for exploration, providing readers, especially student readers, not just with examples of transnational phenomena in German language cultures but also with models of how research in these areas can be configured and pursued. Contributors: Angus Nicholls, Anne Fuchs, Benedict Schofield, Birgit Lang, Charlotte Ryland, Claire Baldwin, Dirk Weissmann, Elizabeth Anderson, James Hodkinson, Nicholas Baer, Paulo Soethe, Rebecca Braun, Sara Jones, Sebastian Heiduschke, Stuart Taberner and Ulrike Draesner.

Author : Gershom Gerhard Scholem
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400883158

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Sabbatai Ṣevi by Gershom Gerhard Scholem Pdf

Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. A work widely esteemed as his magnum opus, Sabbatai Ṣevi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai Ṣevi was an obscure kabbalist rabbi of seventeenth-century Turkey who aroused a fervent following that spread over the Jewish world after he declared himself to be the Messiah. The movement suffered a severe blow when Ṣevi was forced to convert to Islam, but a clandestine sect survived. A monumental and revisionary work of Jewish historiography, Sabbatai Ṣevi details Ṣevi's rise to prominence and stands out for its combination of philological and empirical authority and passion. This edition contains a new introduction by Yaacob Dweck that explains the scholarly importance of Scholem's work to a new generation of readers.

Author : Serge Ruzer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004432932

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Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament by Serge Ruzer Pdf

In Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament, Serge Ruzer explores cases where the New Testament proves an early witness for broader Jewish messianic beliefs, thus revealing a fuller picture of Judaism in the Second Temple period.

Author : D. Wasserzug
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Ethics, Jewish
ISBN : MINN:31951P00304784E

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The Messianic Idea and Its Influence on Jewish Ethics by D. Wasserzug Pdf