ISBN:
9783110741087
,
9783110741186
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 558 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2021
Series Statement:
Studia Judaica 116
Series Statement:
Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Duarte de Oliveira, Manuel Humanity divided
Keywords:
Jewish philosophers
;
Jewish philosophy
;
Jews Election, Doctrine of
;
Biblical teaching
;
Jews Election, Doctrine of
;
Philosophy
;
Buber, Martin
;
Israel
;
Messianismus
;
Zionismus
;
Auserwählung
;
HISTORY / Jewish
;
Choseness
;
Martin Buber
;
Messianism
;
Zionism
;
Buber, Martin 1878-1965
;
Auserwähltes Volk
;
Zionismus
;
Jüdische Theologie
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE – Rabbinic and Biblical Background -- 1 From Divine Election to Self-Deification -- 2 Biblical Background: ‘Particularism’ vs. ‘Universalism,’ or Exemplary Uniqueness? -- 3 Revelation to Moses at Sinai: Exodus 3 -- 4 Israel at Sinai -- 5 The Book of Deuteronomy -- PART TWO – The Modern Period -- 6 Foundations of a Völkisch Movement -- 7 Passion for Land and Volk: The Threat of Neo-Romanticism -- 8 Ecclesia Triumphans and the Silent Servant -- 9 The Jewish Task in World History -- 10 Towards the End: A Center Without a Center -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
Abstract:
With exacting scholarship and fecund analysis, Manuel Oliveira probes through the lens of Martin Buber (1878-1965) the theological and political ambiguities of Israel’s divine election. These ambiguities became especially pronounced with the emergence of Zionism. Wary, indeed, alarmed by the tendency of some of his fellow Zionists to conflate divine chosenness with nationalism, Buber sought to secure the theological significance of election by both steering Zionism from hypertrophic nationalism and by a sustained program to revalorize what he called alternately “Hebrew Humanism.” As Oliveira demonstrates, Buber viewed the idea of election teleologically, espousing a universal mission of Israel, which effectively calls upon Zionism to align its political and cultural project to universal objectives. Thus, in addressing a Zionist congress, he rhetorically asked, “What then is this spirit of Israel of which you are speaking? It is the spirit of fulfillment. Fulfillment of what? Fulfillment of the simple truth that man has been created for a purpose (.) Our purpose is the upbuilding of peace (.) And that is its spirit, the spirit of Israel (.) the people of Israel was charged to lead the way to righteousness and justice.”
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110741087
