Professor Shmueli has synthesized history, philosophy, biblical
scholarship, sociology, literature and psychology into an original
and profound new view of Jewish history. Jewish history is viewed
as an unfolding of seven successive systems of cultures, where each
culture emerges in its time both as a rebel and a successor of
previous cultures. Each presents itself as a distinct and often
startlingly different framework in which the meaning of Jewish life
is always interpreted anew. In this sense, Jewish history may be
said to have undergone seven great "Renaissances." This study
emphasizes the chasm that divides the five "cultures of faith" from
the secular cultures of the Emancipation and nationalist-Israeli
periods. Shmueli argues that the cultures of modernity have created
a new frame of reference for the Jewish people. No longer is Jewish
history viewed as a divine drama, and no longer is the Bible seen
as the hermeneutical key to all Jewish problems. Both in Israel and
outside it, claims Shmueli, there is a need for a new balance that
will retain the creative elements of the past and, at the same
time, permit reinterpretation and change.
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