The Jews as a chosen people tradition and transformation 1st Edition by Leyla Gürkan 9780415466073 0415466075

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ISBN 10: 0415466075

ISBN 13: 9780415466073

Author: S. Leyla Gürkan

The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, the author seeks to give a better understanding of this central doctrine of the Jewish religion. She shows that although the idea of chosenness has been central to Judaism and Jewish self-definition, it has not been carried to the present day in the same form. Instead it has gone through constant change, depending on who is employing it, against what sort of background, and for what purpose. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the doctrine of chosenness that appear in Ancient, Modern, and Post-Holocaust periods, the dominant themes of ‘Holiness’, ‘Mission’, and ‘Survival’ are identified in each respective period. The theological, philosophical, and sociological dimensions of the question of Jewish chosenness are thus examined in their historical context, as responses to the challenges of Christianity, Modernity, and the Holocaust in particular. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Jewish Studies, the Holocaust, religion and theology.

Table of contents:

PART I Chosenness as ‘holiness’

1 The biblical language of chosenness

2 Ancient Jewish literature

3 Rabbinic literature

PART II Chosenness as ‘mission’

4 Universalist Jewish philosophies: Spinoza and Mendelssohn

5 Jewish Emancipation and modern Jewish movements in Germany

6 Modern Jewish congregations in America

7 Zionist understanding

PART III Chosenness as ‘survival’

8 The discourse of ‘Holocaust and Redemption’

9 The American experience

10 The Israeli experience

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