This book highlights the challenges that face Judaism, captured by the dual implication of election: divine love and enmity with others. This challenge takes on great urgency in the context of advances in interfaith relations and a contemporary Jewish theology of world religions.
This book highlights the challenges that face Judaism, captured by the dual implication of election: divine love and enmity with others. This challenge takes on great urgency in the context of advances in interfaith relations and a contemporary Jewish theology of world religions.
Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein is acknowledged as one of the world¿s leading figures in interreligious dialogue. He is founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute since 1997. His work bridges the theological and academic dimension with a variety of practical initiatives, especially involving world religious leadership. His academic work is divided between contributions to early rabbinic thought, Jewish spirituality, interfaith theory and Jewish theology of religions. He has held academic posts at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, and has served as director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College, Jerusalem. The present volume continues his ground-breaking work in the field of Jewish theology of religions.
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Table of Contents Introduction The Election and Sanctity of Israel in the Hebrew Bible Israel Knohl A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation Alon Goshen-Gottstein Israel as Blessing: Theological Horizons Eugene Korn Jewish Chosenness A Contemporary Approach Jerome Gellman Aleinu a Prayer Common to Jews and Gentile God-Fearers Menahem Katz Two Dimensions of Jewish Identity Stanislaw Krajewski Images of the Non-Jew in the Kedushat Levi: A Textual and Theological Exploration Or Rose Israel s Election and the Suffering of the Holocaust Gershon Greenberg Israel s Election and the Moral Dilemma of Amalek and the Seven Nations of Canaan Reuven Kimelman From Enmity to Unity Recovering the Bäal Shem Tov s Teachings on Non-Jews Menachem Kallus Conclusion: Judaism s Challenge Being Israel in Changing Circumstances Notes on Contributors
Table of Contents Introduction The Election and Sanctity of Israel in the Hebrew Bible Israel Knohl A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation Alon Goshen-Gottstein Israel as Blessing: Theological Horizons Eugene Korn Jewish Chosenness A Contemporary Approach Jerome Gellman Aleinu a Prayer Common to Jews and Gentile God-Fearers Menahem Katz Two Dimensions of Jewish Identity Stanislaw Krajewski Images of the Non-Jew in the Kedushat Levi: A Textual and Theological Exploration Or Rose Israel s Election and the Suffering of the Holocaust Gershon Greenberg Israel s Election and the Moral Dilemma of Amalek and the Seven Nations of Canaan Reuven Kimelman From Enmity to Unity Recovering the Bäal Shem Tov s Teachings on Non-Jews Menachem Kallus Conclusion: Judaism s Challenge Being Israel in Changing Circumstances Notes on Contributors
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