Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation 3/e

Marc H. Ellis was appointed to the J.M. Dawson Institute of Chruch State Studies at Baylor University in 1998, and was designated in 1999 as both University Professor of American and Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for American and Jewish Studies. He holds an M.A. in American Studies from Florida State University and a Ph.D. in Contemporary Intellectual and Religious Studies from Marquette University. Dr. Ellis is distinguished for his specialization in the areas of Jewish, Christian, and Third World liberation theology, Holocaust and Post-Holocaust theology, and Twentieth-Century Jewish-Christian theology, thought, and dialogue.

Foreword by Desmond Tutu and Gustavo Gutierrez Introduction 1. A Shattered Witness The Witness of Elie Wiesel A Broken Covenant The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz Moment Faiths The Holocaust as a Universal Crisis 2. The Cost of Empowerment The Third Era of Jewish History The New Anti-Semitism Jews Without Mercy 3. Memory as Burden and Possibility Holocaust as Burden Dissenters in Zion Prophetic Warnings 4. A Tradition of Dissent The Internal Conflict over Zionism, 1937-67 Victory and Occupation, 1967-87 Jewish Responses to the First Palestinian Uprising, 1987-93 Oslo, the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and Beyond, 1993-99 5. Toward an Inclusive Liturgy of Destruction Bitburg and the Messianic Thinking the Unthinkable Envisioning a Common History The Revenge Must Stop 6. Liberation Struggles and the Jewish Community Liberation Theologies from Around the World A Palestinian Theology of Liberation Four Elements of a Jewish Response 7. From Holocaust to Solidarity The Challenges of a New Theology Practicing Justice and Compassion in a Post-Holocaust/Post-September 11th World Is Peace Possible in the Middle East in the 21st Century? Epilogue: The Coming of Constantinian and Evangelical Judaism Notes Index