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Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism - Hardcover

 
9780253014696: Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0253014697 ISBN 13: 9780253014696
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Michael L. Morgan is the Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University.

Steven Weitzman, the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism whose most recent publications include Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom and a second revised edition of The Jews: A History.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253014697
ISBN 13 
9780253014696
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
442
Editor
Morgan Michael L., Weitzman Steven