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A Prophetic Peace – Judaism, Religion, and Politics

Autor Alick Isaacs
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 sep 2011
Challenging deeply held convictions about Judaism, Zionism, war, and peace, Alick Isaacs's combat experience in the second Lebanon war provoked him to search for a way of reconciling the belligerence of religion with its messages of peace. In his insightful readings of the texts of Biblical prophecy and rabbinic law, Isaacs draws on the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Martin Buber, among others, to propose an ambitious vision of religiously inspired peace. Rejecting the notion of Jewish theology as partial to war and vengeance, this eloquent and moving work points to the ways in which Judaism can be a path to peace, A Prophetic Peace describes an educational project called Talking Peace whose aim is to bring individuals of different views together to share varying understandings of peace.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253356840
ISBN-10: 0253356849
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Preface ¿ Lebanon II
1 ¿ Politics, Anti-Politics and Religion
2 - Irenic Scholarship
3 ¿ Theological Disarmament
4 - Deconstruction and the Prophetic Voice
5 ¿ Prophetic Peace
6 ¿ The Rabbinic Voice
7 ¿ A Prayer for Peace
8 ¿ Peace Education
Afterword ¿ Beating Softly
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"A timely, highly original, and important work.... What renders this book quite unique is its powerful and truly engaging autobiographical setting that lends Isaacs's argument a compelling first person urgency." Menachem Fisch, author of Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture (IUP, 1997)

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Personal reflections on Judaism and war