Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism

Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism
Author: Michael L. Morgan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2014-11-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0253014778
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Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.

The Messiah Idea in Jewish History

The Messiah Idea in Jewish History
Author: Julius Hillel Greenstone
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2013-09
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ISBN: 9781230276557
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... und seiner Nachkommen, entitled Ein iibersehenes Zeugniss fur die messianische Auffassung des "Knechtes Jahwehs," pp. 121-62 (Berlin, 1902); cf. also, Buckle, Die sogenannten Ebed-JahiveLieder (Giessen, 1900). uCf. Zech. 3:8; 6:12; also Jer. 23:5; 33:15; see an excellent monograph on this subject by Dr. Ernest Sellin, entitled Serubbabel (Leipzig, 1898). a Cf. Hag. 2:6, 7, 31, 22. 23" Jerusalem will be called the city of truth, and the mount of the Lord of hosts, the holy mount.' * Cf. Hiihn, loc. cit., 23, and notes. fflPs. 22:28-32; 63:3, 6; 86:9; ch. 87; cf. Hiihn, loc. cit., 31; Stade, loc. cit. CHAPTER II 1 See Kuenen, "Religion of Israel," vol. i11, ch. 9. 2Ten institutions, including provisions for the periodic reading of the Torah and other civil and ritual matters, are ascribed by the Rabbis (Baba Kama 82s) to Ezra; cf. M. Bloch, Sha'are Torath ha-Takkanoth, div. I, pt. I, pp. 107-38 (Vienna, 1879). "Mai. 3:23, 24, and Rashi, Ibn Ezra, and Kimchi ad loc; cf. M. Friedmann's Hebrew Introduction to his edition of Seder Eliyahu, pp. 19-20. These verses in Malachi are regarded by some critics as apocalyptic; cf. Ben Sira, 48: 10; see Hiihn, loc. cit., p. 81; C. R. Brown, in "Biblical World," vol. xiv, pp. 417-20; cf. Schiirer, "History of the Jews," etc., English ed., div. 11, vol. 11, p. 156. *Cf. Gray, in "Biblical World," vol. xw, pp. 41011. *Cf. Charles, loc. cit., pp. 78-80, 126-37, where the idea suggested here is hinted at. So far as I know, however, the connection between the development of the belief in the resurrection and the emphasis laid upon law, has not been noticed by modern scholars. Cf. Castelli, "Jewish Quarterly Review," vol. I, pp. 314-52, especially p. 327, where after the present book was in type...

The Messianic Idea in Judaism

The Messianic Idea in Judaism
Author: Gershom Scholem
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2011-11-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 030778908X
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An insightful collection of essays on the Kabbalah and Jewish spirituality—from the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism. Gershom Scholem was the master builder of historical studies of the Kabbalah. When he began to work on this neglected field, the few who studied these texts were either amateurs who were looking for occult wisdom, or old-style Kabbalists who were seeking guidance on their spiritual journeys. His work broke with the outlook of the scholars of the previous century in Judaica—die Wissenschaft des Judentums, the Science of Judaism—whose orientation he rejected, calling their “disregard for the most vital aspects of the Jewish people as a collective entity: a form of “censorship of the Jewish past.” The major founders of modern Jewish historical studies in the nineteenth century, Leopold Zunz and Abraham Geiger, had ignored the Kabbalah; it did not fit into their account of the Jewish religion as rational and worthy of respect by “enlightened” minds. The only exception was the historian Heinrich Graetz. He had paid substantial attention to its texts and to their most explosive exponent, the false Messiah Sabbatai Zevi, but Graetz had depicted the Kabbalah and all that flowed from it as an unworthy revolt from the underground of Jewish life against its reasonable, law-abiding, and learned mainstream. Scholem conducted a continuing polemic with Zunz, Geiger, and Graetz by bringing into view a Jewish past more varied, more vital, and more interesting than any idealized portrait could reveal. —from the Foreword by Arthur Hertzberg, 1995

The Grammar of Messianism

The Grammar of Messianism
Author: Matthew V. Novenson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0190255021
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In this book, Novenson gives a revisionist account of messianism in antiquity. He shows that, for the ancient Jews and Christians who used the term, a messiah was not an article of faith but a manner of speaking: a scriptural figure of speech useful for thinking kinds of political order.

The Messiah Idea in Jewish History (Classic Reprint)

The Messiah Idea in Jewish History (Classic Reprint)
Author: Julius H. Greenstone
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781333423797
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Excerpt from The Messiah Idea in Jewish History The belief in the coming of the Messiah, the treasured hope of the Jew throughout all the centuries of misery and persecution, is regarded by most Jewish thinkers as a dog ma of Judaism. Some of them, indeed, would not make this belief essential to Juda ism. They consider it merely as a branch, or corollary to others more important, but almost all agree that the belief in the coming of a Messiah is an important feature of Judaism. The nature and limitations of this dogma, however, remained unsettled, the Jewish authorities differing widely in their conception of it, according to the intellectual and material position of the people at their respective times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.