Perceptions of Jewish HistoryUniversity of California Press, 1 sep. 2023 - 408 sidor "Perceptions of Jewish History scintillates with original ideas and insights. It will appeal to a broad audience." --Michael A. Signer, University of Notre Dame "Students of the Jewish past will welcome this volume; it will also attract readers with the widest possible range of interests." --Robert Chazan, New York University This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. "Perceptions of Jewish History scintillates with original ideas and insights. It will appeal to a broad audience." --Michael A. Signer, University of Notre Dame "Students of the Jewish past will welcome this volume; it will also attract readers with the |
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... divine promise and premise . And yet their existence was to them a source of perpetual amazement : it was never viewed as a naturally given datum , and it remained always in need of explanation . The very emergence of Israel as a young ...
... divine promise and premise . And yet their existence was to them a source of perpetual amazement : it was never viewed as a naturally given datum , and it remained always in need of explanation . The very emergence of Israel as a young ...
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... divine , transcendent premise and promise into an immanent - historical vocabulary . To concentrate on the liturgical - collective memory only means to lose sight of this main theme of the Jewish historical reason- ing , an incessant ...
... divine , transcendent premise and promise into an immanent - historical vocabulary . To concentrate on the liturgical - collective memory only means to lose sight of this main theme of the Jewish historical reason- ing , an incessant ...
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... , Zakhor , pp . 8-10 , 35-36 , 47 ff . , 108 n . 5 . 28. Only Church historians emphasized the unbroken continuity of historiography ; see chapter 2 on history as continuum . one vision of the enfoldment of a divine plan . INTRODUCTION 15.
... , Zakhor , pp . 8-10 , 35-36 , 47 ff . , 108 n . 5 . 28. Only Church historians emphasized the unbroken continuity of historiography ; see chapter 2 on history as continuum . one vision of the enfoldment of a divine plan . INTRODUCTION 15.
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Amos Funkenstein. one vision of the enfoldment of a divine plan . And while Jews did see in their present humiliation in dispersion a definite divine intention to purge Israel from its sins , details mattered only little — they but added ...
Amos Funkenstein. one vision of the enfoldment of a divine plan . And while Jews did see in their present humiliation in dispersion a definite divine intention to purge Israel from its sins , details mattered only little — they but added ...
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... divine names ( shem hameforash ) , and thus he turned into a pow- erful seducer of the unlearned multitude ( mesit umediach ) . The Jewish legal establishment ( the Sanhedrin ) , at the end of its wits , knew no better remedy than to ...
... divine names ( shem hameforash ) , and thus he turned into a pow- erful seducer of the unlearned multitude ( mesit umediach ) . The Jewish legal establishment ( the Sanhedrin ) , at the end of its wits , knew no better remedy than to ...
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Biblical and Postbiblical Perceptions of History | 48 |
The Historical Novel as Reflexive Literature | 55 |
The Apocalyptic Mentality | 68 |
Medieval Exegesis and Historical Consciousness | 86 |
Haskala History and the Medieval Tradition | 232 |
The Modernization of Western European Jews | 245 |
Franz Rosenzweig and the End of GermanJewish Philosophy | 255 |
Urformell and Urzelle | 258 |
Hermann Cohen and His Legacy | 268 |
Rosenzweig on the Destiny of Judaism | 289 |
Theological Responses to the Holocaust | 304 |
The Holocaust as Punishment and Signal | 305 |
Nachmanidess Reading of the Biblical Narrative | 96 |
Gersonidess Biblical Commentary | 119 |
Law Philosophy and Historical Awareness | 129 |
The Image of the Ruler in Jewish Sources | 153 |
Polemics Responses and SelfReflection | 167 |
Changes in Christian AntiJewish Polemics in the Twelfth Century | 170 |
Responses to Adversity | 199 |
History Apologetics and Humanism | 206 |
The Threshold of Modernity | 218 |
AntiJudaism and AntiSemitism | 309 |
The Dialectical Theology of Meaninglessness | 327 |
Zionism Science and History | 336 |
The Three Aspects | 338 |
Two Images of Humanity | 345 |
Bibliography | 349 |
Index | 373 |
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