Wrestling With an Angel
Subtitle: Power, Morality, and Jewish Identity
Contributors: Michael Swirsky (Translator)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780300092936
Subjects: Jewish Studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Religion; History - General History; Jewish - General; Middle East - Israel; History / Jewish; General; Identity; Jewish ethics; Jews; Power (Social sciences); Zionism and Judaism
Description: 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.