Rethinking the messianic idea in Judaism / edited by Michael L. Morgan and Steven Weitzman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morgan, Michael L., 1944- editor.

Weitzman, Steven, 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Messianic era (Judaism).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Blurred Lines and Open Secrets in Early Jewish Messianism; 1. Messianism between Judaism and Christianity; 2. He That Cometh Out: On How to Disclose a Messianic Secret; Part II. Between Here and Eternity in Medieval Judaism; 3. Maimonides and the Idea of a Deflationary Messiah; 4. "And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight": Twisted Messianic Visions, and a Maimonidean Corrective; 5. Seeking the Symmetry of Time: The Messianic Age in Medieval Chronology; Part III. Messianism and Ethics in Modern Jewish Thought; 6. Messianism and Ethics

7. To Infinity and Beyond: Cohen and Rosenzweig on Comportment toward Redemption8. Levinas and Messianism; Part IV. Politics and Anti-politics in Contemporary Jewish Messianism; 9. What Zvi Yehudah Kook Wrought: The Theopolitical Radicalization of Religious Zionism; 10. Messianic Religious Zionism and the Reintroduction of Sacrifice: The Case of the Temple Institute; 11. The Muted Messiah: The Aversion to Messianic Forms of Zionism in Modern Orthodox Thought; 12. The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking Chabad Messianism

Part V. Messianism between Religious and Secular Imagination13. Isadore Isou's Messianism Awry; 14. Arthur A. Cohen's Messianic Fiction; 15. Reading Messianically with Gershom Scholem; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-01477-8

OCLC:

896826619