The Messianic idea in Judaism : and other essays on Jewish spirituality / [by] Gershom Scholem.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Multiple languages Publication details: New York, Schocken Books [1971]Description: viii, 376 p. 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296
LOC classification:
  • BM 615 .S33 1971
Contents:
Contents:
Toward Understanding the Messianic Idea in Judaism -- The Messianic Idea in Kabbalism -- The Crisis of Tradition in Jewish Messianism -- Redemption Through Sin -- The Crypto-Jewish Sect of Donmeh (Sabbatians) in Turkey -- A Sabbatian Will from New York -- The Neutralization of the Messianic Element in Early Hasidism -- Devekut, or Communion with God -- Martin Buber's Interpretation of Hasidism -- The Tradition of Thirty-six Hidden Just Men -- The Star of David: History of a Symbol -- Revelation and Tradition as Religious Catergories in Judaism -- The Science of Judaism, Then and Now -- At the Completion of Buber's Translation of the Bible -- On the 1930 Edition of Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption -- The Politics of Mysticism: Isaac Breuer's New Kuzari -- The Golem of Prague and the Golem of Rehovot.
Item type: Books
Holdings
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Judith Thomas Library General Stacks Books BM 615 .S33 1971 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA013961 Available AUA013961

Ten of the seventeen essays translated from German and one from Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Toward Understanding the Messianic Idea in Judaism --
The Messianic Idea in Kabbalism --
The Crisis of Tradition in Jewish Messianism --
Redemption Through Sin --
The Crypto-Jewish Sect of Donmeh (Sabbatians) in Turkey --
A Sabbatian Will from New York --
The Neutralization of the Messianic Element in Early Hasidism --
Devekut, or Communion with God --
Martin Buber's Interpretation of Hasidism --
The Tradition of Thirty-six Hidden Just Men --
The Star of David: History of a Symbol --
Revelation and Tradition as Religious Catergories in Judaism --
The Science of Judaism, Then and Now --
At the Completion of Buber's Translation of the Bible --
On the 1930 Edition of Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption --
The Politics of Mysticism: Isaac Breuer's New Kuzari --
The Golem of Prague and the Golem of Rehovot.