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The rhetoric of chosenness

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  1. Stanford University, USA

    Arnold M. Eisen (associate professor of religious studies and Aaron-Roland Fellow)

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He is author of The Chosen People in Americaand Galut: Modern Jewish Reflection on Homelessness and Homecoming.He is at work on a study of transformations in the ideas of ritual and commandment in the Judaism of the modern West.

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Eisen, A.M. The rhetoric of chosenness. Society 28, 26–33 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695177

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