Humanity Divided : : Martin Buber and the Challenges of Being Chosen / / Manuel Duarte de Oliveira.

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 tendenc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 116
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXVI, 558 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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