Holy war in Judaism, the fall and rise of a controversial idea, Reuven Firestone
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Holy war in Judaism, the fall and rise of a controversial idea, Reuven Firestone
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Holy war in Judaism
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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808366429
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Reuven Firestone
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Oxford scholarship online.
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the fall and rise of a controversial idea
Summary
The transformations brought about by modernity required Jews to re-examine the traditional rabbinic prohibition against war in the light of the times. Within a hundred years the traditional safeguards were effectively removed for the majority of religious Jews that continued to take Jewish traditional exegesis seriously. This full process, from removing holy war from possibility to reviving holy war as a paradigm for action, is the topic of this study
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