Assimilation Versus Separation

Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel
Herausgeber: Wildavsky, Aaron

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Produktbeschreibung

How to behave in the diaspora has been a central problem for Jews over the ages. They have debated whether to assimilate by adopting local customs or whether to remain a God-centered people loyal to their temporal rulers but maintaining the peculiar customs that separated them from their host nations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138519008
• ISBN-10: 1138519006
• Artikelnr.: 50494881

Autorenporträt

Aaron Wildavsky (1930-1993) was considered one of the most innovative and prolific scholars in the field of political research in our time. He is the author of Dilemmas of Presidential Leadership (with Richard Ellis), The Beleaguered Presidency, and Craftways: On the Organization of Scholarly Work.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Political Consequences of a God-Centered Religion
1: No Foreigner Can Control Israel: The Wife-Sister Motif Prefigures the Joseph Stories
2: Survival Must Not Be Gained through Sin: The Moral of the Joseph Stories Prefigured through Judah and Tamar, Ruth and Naomi, Joseph and Mrs. Potiphar
3: The Dreamer Is the Dream
4: Fathers, Sons, and Brothers: Joseph and His Family
5: The Egyptianization of Joseph Compared to the Hebraicization of Daniel and Esther
6: Joseph the Administrator
7: If These Are Jacob's Blessings, What Would His Curses Be Like?
8: Why Joseph-the-Assimilator Is Superseded by Moses-the-Lawgiver
9: The Path Not Taken