What Are Jews For? : : History, Peoplehood, and Purpose /

What Are Jews For? : : History, Peoplehood, and Purpose / / Adam Sutcliffe.

A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and futureWhat is the purpose of Jews in the world? The Bible singles out the Jews as God's "chosen people," but the significance of this spec...

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Sutcliffe, Adam,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2019
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. What Are Jews For? History and the Purpose Question
  • 1. Religion, Sovereignty, Messianism
  • 2. Reason, Toleration, Emancipation
  • 3. Teachers and Traders
  • 4. Light unto the Nations
  • 5. Normalization and Its Discontents
  • Conclusion. So What Are Jews For? Jews and Contempor ary Purpose
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A NOTE ON THE TYPE

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