Encountering the Jewish Future

by Ellis, Marc H.

• ISBN13: 9780800697938
• ISBN10: 0800697936
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

The most vital questions about Judaism-present and future-are prefigured, says Marc Ellis in the work of Elie Wiesel, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas. Ellis encounters each thinker to contemplate biblical, theological, and philosophical insights so to foster Jewish empowerment and to ensure a Jewish future.

Author Biography

Marc H. Ellis is University Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University. Among his publications are Reading the Torah Out Loud (2007), Practicing Exile (2001), O, Jerusalem! (1999), and Unholy Alliance (1997).

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Encountering the Holocaust	p. 13
On First Hearing the Holocaust Named	p. 13
Writing The Other Kingdom	p. 18
The Question of God After	p. 21
The Additional Covenant	p. 28
Holocaust Martyrdom and the 1967 War	p. 34
Holocaust Icon	p. 43
Encountering the Bible	p. 53
Teaching as a Prophetic Encounter	p. 58
The Prophetic Community	p. 66
History as a Mysterious Approach to Closeness	p. 78
Isaiah's Arrow in the Quiver	p. 83
Buber's Intriguing Bible	p. 87
Encountering God After	p. 95
Bridging the Interfaith Divide	p. 100
A Disturbing Nostalgia?	p. 110
God of the Prophets	p. 114
Rendezvous with Destiny	p. 124
Praying with My Feet	p. 135
Encountering Jewish Politics	p. 143
Judging Eichmann	p. 147
The Hidden Tradition	p. 157
Jewish Identity(s)	p. 167
Bracketing Jewishness	p. 183
Encountering the Jewish Prophetic	p. 195
The Passion of Passions	p. 199
Ethics as the Optic of the Divine	p. 211
Expiating Blasphemy in Advance	p. 218
Asceticism and the Prophetic	p. 225
Levinas's Ambivalence	p. 233
Epilogue: Encountering the Jewish Future	p. 243
Someone Has Deceived You, My Dear Friend	p. 246
Aaron Crossing the Empire Divide	p. 252
Being Jewish in a Globalized World	p. 257
Notes	p. 267
Index	p. 275
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