Title Wrestling with an angel : power, morality, and jewish identity / Ehud Luz ; translated from the Hebrew by Michael Swirsy.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003]
	©2003

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 350 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-338) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Identity and National Ethos -- Part One: The Will to Power -- Part Two: The Moral Price of Sovereignty -- Part Three: Power and Jewish Identity in Israeli Public Discourse -- Conclusion: Politics in Israel as a Test of Judaism.
Summary	Drawing on historiography, philosophy, social commentary ideological tracts and belles lettres, Ehud Luz explores the ways that Zionist attitudes toward sovereignty were shaped by their Judaic heritage, in particular the prophetic literature and the halakhic (legal) tradition.
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Subject	Jews -- Identity.
	Jews -- Identity.
	Zionism and Judaism.
	Zionism and Judaism.
	Jewish ethics.
	Jewish ethics.
	Power (Social sciences) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Power (Social sciences) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Power (Social sciences)
	Sovereignty -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Sovereignty -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Sovereignty.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Title	Maʼavaḳ be-naḥal Yaboḳ. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003059920
Other Form:	Print version: Luz, Ehud. Maʼavaḳ be-naḥal Yaboḳ. English. Wrestling with an angel. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003 0300092938 9780300092936 (DLC) 2003001708 (OCoLC)51553680
ISBN	9780300129298 (electronic book)
	0300129297 (electronic book)
	1281730106
	9781281730107
	9780300092936
	0300092938

Title Wrestling with an angel : power, morality, and jewish identity / Ehud Luz ; translated from the Hebrew by Michael Swirsy.

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