Yoram Hazony

God and Politics in Esther (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A political crisis erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics, and a Jewish insider goes rogue, determined to save her people at all costs. God and Politics in Esther explores politics and faith. It is about an era in which the prophets have been silenced and miracles have ceased, and Jewish politics has come to depend not on commands from on high, but on the boldness and belief of each woman and man. Esther takes radical action to win friends and allies, reverse terrifying decrees, and bring God's justice into the world with her own hands. Hazony's The Dawn has long been a cult classic, read at Purim each year the world over. Twenty years on, this revised edition brings the book to much wider attention. Three controversial new chapters address the astonishingly radical theology that emerges from amid the political intrigues of the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316490761
• Artikelnr.: 56701789

Autorenporträt

Yoram Hazony is President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem. He is founder and past president of the Shalem Center, now Shalem College. His books include The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture (Cambridge, 2012) and The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul (2009). Hazony directs the John Templeton Foundation's project in Jewish Philosophical Theology and is a member of the Israel Council for Higher Education's committee on liberal studies in Israel's universities. He is a member of the Public Council of the Orthodox rabbinical organization Beit Hillel.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Esther One: 1. Submission and rule
Esther Two: 2. Political favor
Esther Three: 3. The enemy
4. The king's men
5. Idolatry
6. Disobedience
7. Joseph
8. Amalek
9. Anti-Semitism
Esther Four: 10. Pressure
11. Court Jew
12. The decision
Esther Five: 13. The plan
14. Reaction
Esther Six: 15. Power shift
16. Downfall
17. Allies
Esther Seven: 18. The last appeal
19. Political power
20. The Jews' war
21. The morality of war
Esther Nine: 22. The festival
23. Politics and faith
Afterword: I. A missile over Tel Aviv
II. God and emergence
III. God casts no shadow
Notes
Index of names
Index of scriptural references
The Hebrew Esther text.