Jewish fundamentalism and the Temple Mount : who will build the Third Temple? / by Motti Inbari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inbari, Motti.

Series:

Suny series in Israeli studies

Standardized Title:

Fundamenṭalizm Yehudi ṿe-Har ha-bayit. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious Zionism--Israel.

Religious Zionism.

Jewish fundamentalism--Political aspects--Israel.

Jewish fundamentalism.

Messianic era (Judaism).

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Temple Mount (Jerusalem).

Israel--Politics and government--21st century.

Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Temple Mount, located in Jerusalem, is the most sacred site in Judaism and the third-most sacred site in Islam, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. The sacred nature of the site for both religions has made it one of the focal points of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount is an original and provocative study of the theological roots and historical circumstances that have given rise to the movement of the Temple Builders. Motti Inbari points to the Six Day War in 1967 as the watershed event: the Israeli victory in the war resurrected and intensified Temple-oriented messianic beliefs. Initially confined to relatively limited circles, more recent "land for peace" negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors have created theological shock waves, enabling some of the ideas of Temple Mount activists to gain wider public acceptance. Inbari also examines cooperation between Third Temple groups in Israel and fundamentalist Christian circles in the United States, and explains how such cooperation is possible and in what ways it is manifested.

Contents:

Religious Zionism and the Temple Mount dilemma: key trends

Messianic naturalism as a product of dissonance: the activities of the Temple Institute

The movement for redemption and Yehuda Etzion: theocratic post-Zionism

Gershon Salomon and the Temple Mount faithful: apocalyptic messianism

Haredi messianic activism: the movement for the establishment of the Temple

Yitzhak Ginzburg and Od Yossef Chai Yeshiva: theocratic messianic revolurionism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index.

ISBN:

9781438426419

1438426410

9781441612519

1441612513

OCLC:

369172447