What Are Jews For? : History, Peoplehood, and Purpose /

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"For what purpose in the world were the Jews singled out as God's 'chosen people'? What Are Jews For? explores the history of western thinking on the historical purpose of the Jewish people, starting with ancient and medieval foundations but focusing on the period from 1600 to th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sutcliffe, Adam (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Jews > Election, Doctrine of.
RELIGION / Judaism / History
Élection d'Israël.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. What Are Jews For?: History and the Purpose Question
  • Covenant, Chosenness and Divine Purpose: The Biblical Prooftexts
  • Jewish Purpose in History: An Outline
  • 1. Religion, Sovereignty, Messianism: Jews and Political Purpose
  • Special and Subordinate: Jewish Significance in the Early Islamic and Medieval Christian Worlds
  • Protestant Identity and Hebraic Political Theology
  • Two Jewish Messiahs: Sabbatai Zevi and Baruch Spinoza
  • 2. Reason, Toleration, Emancipation: Jews and Philosophical Purpose
  • Judaism versus Reason: Pierre Bayle and Voltaire
  • Toleration and Cosmopolitanism: Lessing, Mendelssohn and the Jew as Enlightenment Ideal
  • Regeneration and Emancipation: Jewish Transformation as Enlightenment Fulfilment
  • 3. Teachers and Traders: Jews and Social Purpose
  • From the Spirit of Judaism to the Mission of Israel: Jews as Universal Teachers
  • The Virtues of Hebraism
  • The Jewish Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
  • 4. Light unto the Nations: Jews and National Purpose
  • Jewish Purpose and the Emergence of the Zionist Idea
  • Messianism, Normalization and the Contest of Zionisms
  • Nationhood and Jewish Exemplarity
  • 5. Normalization and Its Discontents: Jews and Cultural Purpose
  • Integration and Jewish Purpose in Britain and America
  • Cultural Distinctiveness and Cultural Critique in Austria and Germany
  • The Holocaust and the Lessons of Jewish Suffering
  • Jews, the Left and the Politics of Hope
  • Conclusion. So What Are Jews For?: Jews and Contemporary Purpose
  • Jewish Purpose in Theory and Practice
  • Zionism, Antisemitism and the Contemporary Politics of Jewish Purpose
  • Notes
  • Index

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