Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-161) and index.
Contents
Beginnings -- Forged in exile -- Tradition and intuition -- Modernity -- Revelation -- Relation -- Realms of redemption.
Summary
Exile and Restoration in Jewish Thought presents the history of an idea originating at the intersection of Judaic piety and the social history of the Jews: faith in a protective sovereign deity amid contrary conditions. Exiled primordially (Eden), during the Patriarchal era, in the sixth century bce, and from the first century to the twentieth, the Jewish experience of alienation has been the historical backdrop against which affirmations of divine benevolence have been constructed. While histories of Jewish thought have tended to accentuate the speculative creativity of medieval and modern Je.
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