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1919. Excerpt: ... I THE POLITICAL IDEAL OF THE PROPHETS A Study In
Biblical Zionism OF the numerous obstructions which the human
understanding encounters in its search for truth none perhaps are
more troublesome than those which Francis Bacon, philosopher as
well as politician, so quaintly designated as idola fori, "the
idols of the market" "those namely which have entwined themselves
around the understanding from the associations of words and names,"
and are "either the names of things which have no existence, or
they are the names of actual objects, but confused, badly defined,
and hastily and irregularly abstracted from things." As the subject
of this paper will unavoidably lead me to speak of politics,
politicians and things political, I must begin by earnestly
entreating you to dismiss from your minds those unpleasant, nay,
repulsive associations which have encrusted these words in our own
times and surroundings, and to transfer your thoughts to the days
of old when man was best defined as a "political animal," when
Paper read in the Course of Public Lectures of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America on April 1, 1909. Published in the
Jewish Comment on March 11, 1910. A Hebrew translation of this
essay, prepared by the author, was published in the Hebrew monthly
Hatoren in 1915 and reprinted in pamphlet form by the Hebrew
Society "Ahieber" in New York. "political" and "ideal were not yet
a contradiction, and when politics were rather the lever to lift
man from the stupor and selfishness of animal existence to human
virtue and self-sacrifice. If politics be inseparable from
compromise-mongering and trading in convictions, then no greater
insult to prophecy and no grosser misconception of its message
could be possible than to associate it with politics. But if
"pol...
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This present volume is a modest effort to analyze some of the moral
dilemmas of our time, and to indicate elements of hope for the
futur. The essays refer to a variety of complex situations, each of
which seems to threaten our generation, but which, appraoched
creatively, may turn out to be a stage in the improvement of the
human condition. The volume is based on the premise that
consideration of man's ethical life should be given the same
attention now directed to scientific and technological achievemnt,
and indeed that this achievemnet be utilized, when possible, for
the better understanding of the meaning and goals of life. From the
Foreward by Louis Finkelstein
The second of four volumes covering the history of Judaism from 540 BCE to 250 CE, this book deals with the encounter of Judaism with the Hellenistic culture spread throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond by Alexander the Great and his successors. Drawing upon recent scholarship in archaeology, history and scriptures, the contributors describe the religious, social and cultural rejection and adoption of Hellenism by Judaism. Illustrated with plates and diagrams, the text will prove an invaluable resource to scholars and general readers interested in Jewish or Mediterranean history.
The first three volumes of The Cambridge History of Judaism cover
the history of the Jews from the Exile in 5 87 B.C.E. to the early
Roman period extending into the third century C.E. A comprehensive
examination is made of all the relevant literary and archeological
sources, and special attention is given to the interaction of
Iranian, Semitic, Hellenistic and Roman cultures. The contributors
include both Jewish and Gentile scholars from many countries, and
this History thus helps to deliver the study of Jewish history and
Christian origins from geographical and religious limitations, and
contributes to a deeper understanding and a broader tolerance. This
first volume opens with three introductory chapters to the work as
a whole dealing with the geographical background, the chronology
and the numismatic history of Judaism. The remainder of this volume
concentrates on the Persian period, the two and a half centuries
following the Babylonian Exile.
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