O, JERUSALEM: The Contested Future of the Jewish Covenant - Softcover

ELLIS, MARC

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800631595 ISBN 13: 9780800631598

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

This century has bequeathed to the Jewish people a series of events "with horrific and startling consequences," including the Holocaust, the birth of the state of Israel, and its development into a powerful military state. Ellis argues that the history and identity of the Jewish people are now being decisively transformed and reinterpreted. What is their destiny in the next century?Ellis asks, "Are there religious ideals, intellectual concepts, and political movements . . . that will help Jews confront the history we are creating . . . ?" In this profound and provocative work, he finds the answers in the covenant, symbolized by Jerusalem. Ellis offers a renewed theology of the covenant and its justice dimensions, its present "exile," and its future in revolutionary forgiveness.

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About the Author

Marc H. Ellis is retired University Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University. Among his publications areEncountering the Jewish Future (2012), Reading the Torah Out Loud (2007), Practicing Exile (2001), Oh, Jerusalem! (1999), and Unholy Alliance (1997), all from Fortress Press. He is also a regular contributor on Mondoweiss: The War of Ideas in the Middle Eastwith a series called Exile and the Prophetic

Edition details

• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0800631595
• ISBN 13: 9780800631598
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208