TY  - BOOK
AU  - Duarte de Oliveira,Manuel
AU  - Mendes-Flohr,Paul
TI  - Humanity Divided: Martin Buber and the Challenges of Being Chosen 
T2  - Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums ,
SN  - 9783110740745
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Jewish philosophers
KW  - Jewish philosophy
KW  - Jews
KW  - Election, Doctrine of
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Auserwählung
KW  - Buber, Martin
KW  - Israel
KW  - Messianismus
KW  - Zionismus
KW  - HISTORY / Jewish
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Choseness
KW  - Martin Buber
KW  - Messianism
KW  - Zionism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Foreword --; Preface --; Introduction --; PART ONE – Rabbinic and Biblical Background --; 1 From Divine Election to Self-Deification --; 2 Biblical Background: ‘Particularism’ vs. ‘Universalism,’ or Exemplary Uniqueness? --; 3 Revelation to Moses at Sinai: Exodus 3 --; 4 Israel at Sinai --; 5 The Book of Deuteronomy --; PART TWO – The Modern Period --; 6 Foundations of a Völkisch Movement --; 7 Passion for Land and Volk: The Threat of Neo-Romanticism --; 8 Ecclesia Triumphans and the Silent Servant --; 9 The Jewish Task in World History --; 10 Towards the End: A Center Without a Center --; Epilogue --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - With exacting scholarship and fecund analysis, Manuel Oliveira probes through the lens of Martin Buber (1878-1965) the theological and political ambiguities of Israel’s divine election. These ambiguities became especially pronounced with the emergence of Zionism. Wary, indeed, alarmed by the tendency of some of his fellow Zionists to conflate divine chosenness with nationalism, Buber sought to secure the theological significance of election by both steering Zionism from hypertrophic nationalism and by a sustained program to revalorize what he called alternately “Hebrew Humanism.” As Oliveira demonstrates, Buber viewed the idea of election teleologically, espousing a universal mission of Israel, which effectively calls upon Zionism to align its political and cultural project to universal objectives. Thus, in addressing a Zionist congress, he rhetorically asked, “What then is this spirit of Israel of which you are speaking? It is the spirit of fulfillment. Fulfillment of what? Fulfillment of the simple truth that man has been created for a purpose (.) Our purpose is the upbuilding of peace (.) And that is its spirit, the spirit of Israel (.) the people of Israel was charged to lead the way to righteousness and justice.”
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110741087
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110741087
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110741087/original
ER  -