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O, Jerusalem!

The Contested Future of the Jewish Covenant
  • ISBN-13: 9780800631598
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • By Marc H. Ellis
  • Price: AUD $45.99
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  • Local release date: 23/07/1999
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 208 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Judaism [HRJ]International relations [JPS]
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This century has bequeathed to the Jewish people a series of events "with horrific and startling consequences," including the Holocaust, the birth of the state of Israel, and its development into a powerful military state. Ellis argues that the history and identity of the Jewish people are now being decisively transformed and reinterpreted. What is their destiny in the next century?Ellis asks, "Are there religious ideals, intellectual concepts, and political movements . . . that will help Jews confront the history we are creating . . . ?" In this profound and provocative work, he finds the answers in the covenant, symbolized by Jerusalem. Ellis offers a renewed theology of the covenant and its justice dimensions, its present "exile," and its future in revolutionary forgiveness.
Marc H. Ellis is retired University Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University. Among his publications areEncountering the Jewish Future (2012), Reading the Torah Out Loud (2007), Practicing Exile (2001), Oh, Jerusalem! (1999), and Unholy Alliance (1997), all from Fortress Press. He is also a regular contributor on Mondoweiss: The War of Ideas in the Middle Eastwith a series called Exile and the Prophetic
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter 1 -- Visions of the Diaspora and Homeland Perspectives on the Jewish Return Ambivalent Legacy, Uncertain Future The Present Challenge Chapter 2 -- On Memory and Justice The Jewish Liturgy of Destruction Remembering Deir Yassin The Path Chosen Chapter 3 -- Jerusalem and the Broken Middle Paths of Resistance and Affirmation A Covenant in Exile Jerusalem and the Broken Middle Chapter 4 -- The Covenant on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century Boundaries and the Covenant Tikkun of Ordinary Decency A Thick Wall of Scandal Chapter 5 -- The Great Debate over Jewish Identity and Culture Israel's Fragmentary Tikkun The Seventh Jewish Culture A Fatal Embrace Monumental Anxieties Jewish Culture and the State Chapter 6 -- Toward a New Sinai The Time Is Now Revolutionary Forgiveness Envisioning the Centenary of Israel's Birth Toward an Inclusive Palestine Culture Finding the Lost Agenda Epilogue Refusing Partial Practice The Grounding of Our Fidelity
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