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Judaism's challenge : election, divine love, and human enmity / edited by Alon Goshen-Gottstein.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish thought, Jewish history: new studiesPublisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 209 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781644691502
  • 1644691507
  • 9781644693735
  • 1644693739
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Judaism's challengeDDC classification:
  • 296.3/1172 23
LOC classification:
  • BM613 .J83 2020
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Israel and the call of love to humanity / Alon Goshen-Gottstein -- The election and sanctity of Israel in the Hebrew Bible / Israel Knohl -- A kingdom of priests and a holy nation / Alon Goshen-Gottstein -- Israel as blessing : theological horizons / Eugene Korn -- Jewish chosenness - a contemporary approach / Jerome Gellman -- Aleinu : a prayer common to Jews and Gentile God-fearers / Menachem Katz -- Two dimensions of Jewish identity / Stanislaw Krajewski -- Images of the non-Jew in the Kedushat Levi : a textual and theological exploration / Or Rose -- Israel's election and the suffering of the Holocaust / Gershon Greenberg -- Israel's election and the moral dilemma of Amalek and the seven nations of Canaan / Reuven Kimelman -- From enmity to unity-recovering the Ba'al Shem Tov's teachings on non-Jews / Menachem Kallus -- Conclusion : Judaism's challenge : being Israel in changing circumstances / Alon Goshen-Gottstein.
Summary: "One cannot think of Judaism without taking some stance relating to Israel's special status, its election. The present collection highlights the challenges that Judaism faces, as it continues to uphold a sense of chosenness and as it seeks to engage the world beyond it-nations, as well as religions. The challenge is captured by the dual implication of election: divine love on the one hand and enmity with others on the other. Israel's election, mission and vocation are played out within this tension of love, grounded in God and extending to humanity, and the opposite of love, as this finds expression in Israel's relations with others. Israel must work out the purpose of its election and its realization in history in the tension between these two extremes. This challenge takes on great urgency in the context of advances in interfaith relations. These lead us to reflect on the meaning of Israel's election as part of developing a contemporary Jewish theology of world religions"-- Provided by publisher.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2635533

"One cannot think of Judaism without taking some stance relating to Israel's special status, its election. The present collection highlights the challenges that Judaism faces, as it continues to uphold a sense of chosenness and as it seeks to engage the world beyond it-nations, as well as religions. The challenge is captured by the dual implication of election: divine love on the one hand and enmity with others on the other. Israel's election, mission and vocation are played out within this tension of love, grounded in God and extending to humanity, and the opposite of love, as this finds expression in Israel's relations with others. Israel must work out the purpose of its election and its realization in history in the tension between these two extremes. This challenge takes on great urgency in the context of advances in interfaith relations. These lead us to reflect on the meaning of Israel's election as part of developing a contemporary Jewish theology of world religions"-- Provided by publisher.

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Israel and the call of love to humanity / Alon Goshen-Gottstein -- The election and sanctity of Israel in the Hebrew Bible / Israel Knohl -- A kingdom of priests and a holy nation / Alon Goshen-Gottstein -- Israel as blessing : theological horizons / Eugene Korn -- Jewish chosenness - a contemporary approach / Jerome Gellman -- Aleinu : a prayer common to Jews and Gentile God-fearers / Menachem Katz -- Two dimensions of Jewish identity / Stanislaw Krajewski -- Images of the non-Jew in the Kedushat Levi : a textual and theological exploration / Or Rose -- Israel's election and the suffering of the Holocaust / Gershon Greenberg -- Israel's election and the moral dilemma of Amalek and the seven nations of Canaan / Reuven Kimelman -- From enmity to unity-recovering the Ba'al Shem Tov's teachings on non-Jews / Menachem Kallus -- Conclusion : Judaism's challenge : being Israel in changing circumstances / Alon Goshen-Gottstein.