Format:
1 Online-Ressource (145 p.)
ISBN:
9781800736740
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1800736746
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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The Gate to Perfection: The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. The Concept of Peace in the Hebrew Bible -- 1. In the Pre-Exilic Perioda. a) The Genesis generation, the acquisition of land and the colonization of Canaan -- (Excursus: Peace with the animal world) -- b. Pre-Exilic Prophecy -- (Excursus: The Concept of the ""Messiah'') -- 2. The Exile and Post-Exilic Prophecy -- II. The Jewish-Hellenistic Symbiosis in the ""Sefarim Chizoniim,"" and in Philo and Josephus -- (Excursus: The Rise of Individualism)
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1. The ""Sefarim Chizoniim -- 2. Philo and Josephus as Representatives of the Jewish-Hellenistic Symbiosis -- III. Views on Peace in Talmudic Times -- Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash -- (Excursus: Peace in Prayer) -- IV. Medieval Jewish Philosophy and its Attitude toward Peace -- 1. Messianic Peace -- 2. Peace in the Here-and-Now -- 3. Peace as an Abstract Concept -- V. The Concept of Peace in the Jewish Enlightenment and Emancipation -- 1. Hasidism -- 2. The ""Wissenschaft des Judentums -- a. Moritz Lazarus (1824-1903) -- b. Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) -- VI. The Jewish Reformation
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(Excursus: Samson Raphael Hirsch, 1815-1889) -- 1. Leo Baeck (1873-1956) -- 2. Progressive Judaism Today -- VII. Jews, Judaism and the Concept of Peace in Our Time -- Appendix -- Bibliography
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781571810182
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Homolka, Rabbi Professor Walter The Gate to Perfection New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated,c1994 ISBN 9781571810182
Language:
English
