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Author:

Firestone, Reuven, 1952-

Title:

Holy war in Judaism : the fall and rise of a controversial idea / Reuven Firestone.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiii, 365 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

War--Judaism.--Judaism.
War--Biblical teaching.
War in literature.
Rabbinical literature--History and criticsim.
Arab-Israeli conflict--Judaism.--Judaism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Pt. I. The ancient Jewish world: holy war in practice -- Holy war in the Bible -- Jewish holy war in practice: early success -- Holy war fails -- Pt. II. The world of the rabbis: holy war interrupted -- Rabbinic responses to war's failure -- Rabbinic typology of war -- Who is the enemy? -- Maimonides' counting of the commandments -- Nahmanides' critique, and other thinkers -- Pt. III. The emergence of Jewish modernity: holy war on hold -- The crisis of modernity and Jewish responses -- From practicality to a new messianism -- The new Jew -- From Holocaust to holy war: Israel's war of independence -- Pt. IV. The Jewish State: holy war revived -- 1948 to 1967: from defensive war to preemptive war -- 1967 to 1973:the miracle of conquest and the test of Yom Kippur -- The 1980s: holy war and its excesses -- Conclusion: the resurrection of holy war.

ISBN:

0199860300
9780199860302

OCLC:

(OCoLC)754186802

LCCN:

2011037959

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)