TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gellman,Jerome
AU  - Goshen-Gottstein,Alon
AU  - Greenberg,Gershon
AU  - Kallus,Menachem
AU  - Katz,Menachem
AU  - Kimelman,Reuven
AU  - Knohl,Israel
AU  - Korn,Eugene
AU  - Krajewski,Stanislaw
AU  - Rose,Or
TI  - Judaism’s Challenge: Election, Divine Love, and Human Enmity 
T2  - Jewish Thought, Jewish History: New Studies
SN  - 9781644691489
AV  - BM613 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - Academic Studies Press, 
KW  - Jews
KW  - Election, Doctrine of
KW  - RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Biblical interpretation
KW  - Election
KW  - Gentiles
KW  - Israel foreign relations
KW  - Israel
KW  - Jewish identity
KW  - Jewish state
KW  - Jewish theology of religions
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Zionism
KW  - agnosticism
KW  - antisemitism
KW  - blessing
KW  - chosenness
KW  - contemporary Judaism
KW  - genocide
KW  - interfaith relations
KW  - interfaith theory
KW  - interreligious dialogue
KW  - love
KW  - non-Jews
KW  - prayer
KW  - suffering
KW  - theology
KW  - world religious leadership
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Israel and the Call of Love to Humanity --; The Election and Sanctity of Israel in the Hebrew Bible --; A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation --; Israel as Blessing: Theological Horizons --; Jewish Chosenness—A Contemporary Approach --; Aleinu—A Prayer Common to Jews and Gentile God-Fearers --; Two Dimensions of Jewish Identity --; Images of the Non-Jew in the Kedushat Levi: A Textual and Theological Exploration --; Israel’s Election and the Suffering of the Holocaust --; Israel’s Election and the Moral Dilemma of Amalek and the Seven Nations of Canaan --; From Enmity to Unity—Recovering the Ba’al Shem Tov’s Teachings on Non-Jews --; Conclusion: Judaism’s Challenge—Being Israel in Changing Circumstances --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644691502?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644691502
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781644691502/original
ER  -