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A prophetic peace : Judaism, religion, and politics / Alick Isaacs.

By: Series: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 200 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253005649
  • 0253005647
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prophetic peace.DDC classification:
  • 956.9204/5242092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • DS87.65 .I83 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Lebanon II; Chapter 1 Politics, Anti-Politics, and Religion; Chapter 2 Irenic Scholarship; Chapter 3 Theological Disarmament; Chapter 4 Deconstruction and the Prophetic Voice; Chapter 5 Messianic Peace; Chapter 6 The Rabbinic Voice; Chapter 7 A Prayer for Peace; Chapter 8 Peace Education; Afterword: Beating Softly; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Challenging deeply held convictions about Judaism, Zionism, war, and peace, Alick Isaacs's combat experience in the second Lebanon war provoked him to search for a way of reconciling the belligerence of religion with its messages of peace. In his insightful readings of the texts of Biblical prophecy and rabbinic law, Isaacs draws on the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Martin Buber, among others, to propose an ambitious vision of religiously inspired peace. Rej.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.

Print version record.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Lebanon II; Chapter 1 Politics, Anti-Politics, and Religion; Chapter 2 Irenic Scholarship; Chapter 3 Theological Disarmament; Chapter 4 Deconstruction and the Prophetic Voice; Chapter 5 Messianic Peace; Chapter 6 The Rabbinic Voice; Chapter 7 A Prayer for Peace; Chapter 8 Peace Education; Afterword: Beating Softly; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Challenging deeply held convictions about Judaism, Zionism, war, and peace, Alick Isaacs's combat experience in the second Lebanon war provoked him to search for a way of reconciling the belligerence of religion with its messages of peace. In his insightful readings of the texts of Biblical prophecy and rabbinic law, Isaacs draws on the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Martin Buber, among others, to propose an ambitious vision of religiously inspired peace. Rej.

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