Holy war in Judaism
the fall and rise of a controversial idea
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Author
Publication
2012 - Oxford University Press, New York, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
91,250 words, Guess
Page Count
365 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveholywarinjudaism0000fire
- ISBN-139780199860302
- ISBN-100199860300
- Library of Congress Control Number2011037959
- OCLC Control Number754186802
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780199860302
- Open LibraryOL25046646M
Classifications
- DDC296.3/827
- LCCBM538.P3 F57 2012
- LCCBM538.P3F57 2012
Description
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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