TY  - BOOK
AU  - Isaacs,Alick
TI  - A prophetic peace: Judaism, religion, and politics 
SN  - 9780253005649
AV  - DS87.65 .I83 2011eb
U1  - 956.9204/5242092B 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Bloomington, Ind.
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Israel
KW  - Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel
KW  - fast
KW  - Lebanon War (2006)
KW  - Lebanon War, 2006
KW  - Personal narratives, Israeli
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict
KW  - Peace
KW  - War
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Middle East
KW  - General
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Religious
KW  - Lebanon
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Israeli
KW  - Electronic resource
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index; 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
N2  - 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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