Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Dialogue & Alliance
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,3 (1989) 5-16
Keywords:
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1500-
;
History
;
Jews Election, Doctrine of
;
Jewish philosophy, Modern
Abstract:
Examines the doctrine of Jewish chosenness, and points out that it has had disastrous consequences for the world's perceptions and expectations of the Jew. The concept has been distorted and used as the basis for various theories of national and racial superiority. Christianity interpreted its own role in terms of a universal mission in which chosenness passed from Israel to the Christian Church. Chosenness and deicide became inseparable in the belief that Jesus was chosen to take upon himself the sins of the world and the Jews brought about his death, arousing the irrational hatred of the Jew which culminated in the Holocaust. Finds that there is a continuity between Nazi antisemitism and current militant anti-Zionism.
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