The Making Of Jewish Universalism

Author : Malka Simkovich
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498542432

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This book explores two kinds of universalist thought that circulated among Jews in the Greco-Roman world. The first, which is founded on the idea that all people may worship the One True God in an engaged and sustained manner, originates in biblical prophetic literature. The second, which underscores a common ethic that all people share, arose in the second century bce. This study offers one definition of Jewish universalism that applies to both of these types of universalist thought: universalist literature presumes that all people, regardless of religion and ethnicity, have access to a relationship with the Israelite God and the benefits promised to those loyal to this God, without demanding that they participate in the Israelite community as a Jew. This book opens with an exploration of four types of relationships between Israelites and non-Israelites in biblical prophetic literature: Israel as Subjugators, Israel as Standard-Bearers, Naturalized Nations, and Universalized Worship. In all of these relationships, the foreign nations will acknowledge the One True God, but it is only the Universalized Worship model that offers a truly universalist vision of the end-time. The second section of this book examines how these four relationship models are expressed in Second Temple literature, and the third section studies late Second Temple texts that employ a second kind of universalist thought that emphasizes ethical behavior. This book closes with the suggestion that Ethical Universalist ideas expressed in late Second Temple texts reflect exposure to Stoic thinkers who were developing universalist ideas in the second century BCE.

Author : Malka Z. Simkovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 1498542425

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Interest in Jewish universalism is on the rise, yet scholars lack a common definition of the concept. This book advocates for a common definition of universalism as it applies to an Early Jewish context and traces the origins of Jewish universalist thought from the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible through the period of the Second Temple.

Author : Svante Lundgren
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 158684105X

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Particularism and Universalism in Modern Jewish Thought by Svante Lundgren Pdf

Explores how modern Judaism has balanced between universalism and particularism.

Author : Stephen Finlan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666715019

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To Unite the Scattered Children of God by Stephen Finlan Pdf

To Unite the Scattered Children of God is an accessible exploration of hope for the spiritual uniting of humankind, in worship and in other ways, from Isaiah on down to present times. Several prophets shared this hope: "Many nations shall join themselves to the Lord on that day, and shall be my people" (Zech 2:11). To an even greater degree, Jesus set in motion a universalizing power. Jesus and Paul inspired hope for the uniting of Jews, Samaritans, and Gentiles into "one fold," in the "unity of the faith." The book also builds upon the work of Teilhard de Chardin regarding the convergence of the human race under the spiritual influence of Christ, the omega point of evolution. Insights from pneumatology, process theology, personalism, interfaith discussions, and world peace advocacy add to the discussion.

Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199356812

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Rethinking Jewish Philosophy by Aaron W. Hughes Pdf

Rather than assume that the terms "philosophy" and "Judaism" simply belong together, Aaron W. Hughes explores the juxtaposition and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation. He examines the historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy.

Author : Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580237833

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All the World by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD Pdf

Why be Jewish? A fascinating dialogue across denominations of the High Holy Days and their message of Jewish purpose beyond mere survival. Almost forty contributors from three continents—men and women, scholars and poets, rabbis and theologians, representing all Jewish denominations and perspectives—examine the tension between Israel as a particular People called by God, and that very calling as intended for a universalist end, furthering God’s vision for all the world, not just for Jews alone. This balance of views arises naturally out of the prayers in the High Holy Day liturgy, coupled with insights from philosophy, literature, theology and ethics. This fifth volume in the Prayers of Awe series provides the relevant traditional prayers in the original Hebrew, alongside a new and annotated translation. It explores the question “Why be Jewish?” in a time when universalist commitment to our planet and its people has only grown in importance, even as particularist questions of Jewish continuity have become ever more urgent.

Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0876410050

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Universalism and Jewish Values by Michael Walzer Pdf

Author : František Ábel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978710818

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Israel and the Nations by František Ábel Pdf

Israel and the Nations: Paul's Gospel in the Context of Jewish Expectation provides various perspectives of leading contemporary scholars concerning Paul’s message, particularly his expressed expectation of the end-time redemption of Israel and its relation to the Gentiles, the non-Jewish nations, in the context of Jewish eschatological expectation. The contributors engage the increasingly contentious enigmas relating to Paul’s Jewishness: had his perception of living in a new era in Christ and anticipating an imminent final consummation moved him beyond the bounds of what his contemporaries would have considered Judaism, or did Paul continue to think and act “within Judaism”?

Author : Moshe Y. Miller
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817361297

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Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation by Moshe Y. Miller Pdf

"In Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation Moshe Miller argues that nineteenth-century German Jews of all persuasions actively sought acceptance within German society and aspired to achieve full emancipation from the many legal strictures on their status as citizens and residents. But, where non-Orthodox Jews sought a large measure of cultural assimilation, Orthodox Jews were content with more delimited acculturation. However, they were no less enthusiastic about achieving emancipation and acceptance in German society. There was one issue, though, which was seen by non-Jewish critics of emancipation as a barrier to granting civic rights to Jews: namely, the alleged tribalism of the Jewish ethic and the supposedly Orthodox notion of Jews as "the Chosen People." These charges could not go unanswered, and in the writings of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888), a leading thinker of the Orthodox camp, they did not. Hirsch stressed the universalism of the Jewish ethic and the humanistic concern for the welfare of all mankind, which he believed was one of the core teachings of Judaism. His colleagues in the German Orthodox rabbinate largely concurred with Hirsch's assessment. This account places Hirsch's views in their historical context and provides a detailed account of his attitude toward non-Jews and the Christianity practiced by the vast majority of nineteenth-century Europeans"--

Author : Joseph S. Nye,Michael Walzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Acquisition of property
ISBN : 0876411618

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National Interest in the Information Age by Joseph S. Nye,Michael Walzer Pdf

Author : Sarah Imhoff
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253026361

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Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism by Sarah Imhoff Pdf

An examination of how early twentieth-century American Jewish men experienced manhood and presented their masculinity to others. How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative American manhood nor its negative, effeminate opposite. Imhoff demonstrates how early twentieth-century Jews constructed a gentler, less aggressive manhood, drawn partly from the American pioneer spirit and immigration experience, but also from Hollywood and the YMCA, which required intense cultivation of a muscled male physique. She contends that these models helped Jews articulate the value of an acculturated American Judaism. Tapping into a rich historical literature to reveal how Jews looked at masculinity differently than Protestants or other religious groups, Imhoff illuminates the particular experience of American Jewish men. “There is so much literature—and very good scholarship—on Judaism and gender, but the majority of that literature reflects an interest in women. A hearty thank you to Sarah Imhoff for writing the other half of the story and for doing it so elegantly.” —Claire Elise Katz, author of Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism “Invariably lucid and engaging, Sarah Imhoff provides a secure foundation for how religion shaped American masculinity and how masculinity shaped American Judaism in the early twentieth century.” —Judith Gerson, author of By Thanksgiving We Were Americans: German Jewish Refugees and Holocaust Memory

Author : Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520383067

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The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Pdf

In this age of globalization, the eighteenth-century priest and abolitionist Henri Grégoire has often been called a man ahead of his time. An icon of antiracism, a hero to people from Ho Chi Minh to French Jews, Grégoire has been particularly celebrated since 1989, when the French government placed him in the Pantheon as a model of ideals of universalism and human rights. In this beautifully written biography, based on newly discovered and previously overlooked material, we gain access for the first time to the full complexity of Grégoire's intellectual and political universe as well as the compelling nature of his persona. His life offers an extraordinary vantage from which to view large issues in European and world history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and provides provocative insights into many of the prevailing tensions, ideals, and paradoxes of the twenty-first century. Focusing on Grégoire's idea of "regeneration," that people could literally be made anew, Sepinwall argues that revolutionary universalism was more complicated than it appeared. Tracing the Revolution's long-term legacy, she suggests that while it spread concepts of equality and liberation throughout the world, its ideals also helped to justify colonialism and conquest.

Author : J. David
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440109324

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The Jews, Nationalism, and the Universalist Ideal by J. David Pdf

The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They come from within. They do not come from the cottages of the wage-earners. They come from a peculiar type of brainy people always found in our country, who, if they add something to its culture, take much from its strength. Our difficulties come from the mood of unwarrantable self-abasement into which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own intellectuals. They come from the acceptance of defeatist doctrines by a large proportion of our politicians. But what have they to offer but a vague internationalism, a squalid materialism, and the promise of impossible Utopias? Winston Churchill, 'England', 24 April 1933, Royal Society of St George, London.

Author : Lawrence A. Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1459684311

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All the World by Lawrence A. Hoffman Pdf

This examination of universalism and particularism in Judaism seeks answers to the complex question, "Why be Jewish?" It explores the universalistic definition of the Jews' historic destiny, the role Jews must play simply by virtue of being human, and JudaismÕs part in helping Jews play that human role with uniquely Jewish passion and commitment.

Author : Isaac W. Oliver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197530603

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Luke's Jewish Eschatology by Isaac W. Oliver Pdf

Luke, the eponymous author of the gospel that bears his name as well as the book of Acts, wrote the largest portion of the New Testament. Luke is generally thought to be a gentile. This book addresses a question raised by Jesus's disciples at the very beginning of Acts: "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" The question is freighted with political and national significance as it inquires about the restoration of political sovereignty to the Jewish people. This book investigates Luke's perspective on the salvation of Israel in light of Jewish restoration eschatology. It situates Luke-Acts in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The author of Luke-Acts did not write the Jews off but still awaited the restoration of Israel. Luke conceived of Israel's eschatological restoration in traditional Jewish terms. The nation of Israel would experience liberation in the fullest sense, including national and political restoration. Luke's Jewish Eschatology builds upon the appreciation of the Jewish character of early Christianity in the decades after the Holocaust, which has witnessed the reclamation of the Jewishness of the historical Jesus and even Paul.