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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
David Aberbach |
ISBN: | 1403917663 9781403917669 |
OCLC Number: | 52381155 |
Description: | xv, 220 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | pt. I. From Idolatry to Monotheism -- 1. The Iron Age, Imperialism, and the Prophets -- 2. Trauma and Abstract Monotheism: Jewish Exile and Recovery in the Sixth Century B.C.E. -- pt. II. From State to Scripture -- 3. The Roman-Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism -- 4. Entry to Powerlessness: The Tannaim, Marcus Aurelius, and the Politics of Stoicized Judaism -- pt. III. Toward a Secular Culture -- 5. Secular Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain 1031-1140 -- pt. IV. From Theology to Sociology -- 6. The Baal Shem Tov, Mystical Union, and Individualism -- 7. Marx and Freud: Emancipation and the End of Rabbinic Dominance -- 8. Conflicting Images of Hebrew in Western Civilization -- pt. V. From Assimilation to Nationalism -- 9. The Renascence of Hebrew and Jewish Nationalism in the Tsarist Empire 1881-1917. |
Responsibility: | David Aberbach. |
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Abstract:
This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire;
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