Wrestling with an angel : power, morality, and jewish identity

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Wrestling with an angel : power, morality, and jewish identity

Title remainder

power, morality, and jewish identity

Statement of responsibility

Ehud Luz ; translated from the Hebrew by Michael Swirsky

Creator

• Luz, Ehud

Contributor

• Swirsky, Michael

Translator

• Swirsky, Michael

Subject

• Jewish ethics
• Jews -- Identity
• Power (Social sciences) -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Sovereignty -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Zionism and Judaism

Language

• eng
• heb
• eng

Summary

"Drawing on historiography, philosophy, social commentary, ideological tracts, and belles lettres, Ehud Luz explores the ways that Zionist attitudes toward sovereignty were shaped by their Judaic heritage, in particular the prophetic literature and the halakhic (legal) tradition, which stressed the sanctity of human life and the strict prohibition against the shedding of innocent blood. Luz argues that despite secularization, Jewish tradition continues to influence the political life and national ethos of the Jews, and that the Jewish religious tradition is an important, sometimes even decisive factor in the way that political and cultural issues in Israel are resolved"--provided by publisher

Member of

• Maʼavaḳ be-naḥal Yaboḳ

Cataloging source

IT-FiEUI

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography