Yoram Hazony

God and Politics in Esther

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the political crisis that erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics and a Jewish insider goes rogue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781107132054
• ISBN-10: 1107132053
• Artikelnr.: 44273624

Autorenporträt

Yoram Hazony is President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem. He is founder and past president of the Shalem Center, now Shalem College. His books include The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture (Cambridge, 2012) and The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul (2009). Hazony directs the John Templeton Foundation's project in Jewish Philosophical Theology and is a member of the Israel Council for Higher Education's committee on liberal studies in Israel's universities. He is a member of the Public Council of the Orthodox rabbinical organization Beit Hillel.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Esther One: 1. Submission and rule
Esther Two: 2. Political favor
Esther Three: 3. The enemy
4. The king's men
5. Idolatry
6. Disobedience
7. Joseph
8. Amalek
9. Anti-Semitism
Esther Four: 10. Pressure
11. Court Jew
12. The decision
Esther Five: 13. The plan
14. Reaction
Esther Six: 15. Power shift
16. Downfall
17. Allies
Esther Seven: 18. The last appeal
19. Political power
20. The Jews' war
21. The morality of war
Esther Nine: 22. The festival
23. Politics and faith
Afterword: I. A missile over Tel Aviv
II. God and emergence
III. God casts no shadow
Notes
Index of names
Index of scriptural references
The Hebrew Esther text.