The New Diaspora and the Global Prophetic

Engaging the Scholarship of Marc H. Ellis

Susanne Scholz, Santiago Slabodsky (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

322 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
9781978706248 (ISBN)

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This book gathers twenty-two scholars and activists, living in interconnected diasporas, to explore the connections between Marc H. Ellis’s Jewish liberation theology and current intellectual and geopolitical developments in Israel/Palestine and the world.

For four decades, Marc H. Ellis has sought to rethink the Jewish tradition in light of the prophetic imperative, especially with regard to the need for geopolitical justice in the context of Israel/Palestine. Here, twenty-two contributors offer intellectual, theological, political, and journalistic insight intoEllis’s work, connecting his theological scholarship to the particularities of their own contexts. Some contributors reflect specifically on Israel/Palestine while others transfer Ellis’s theopolitical discussions to other geopolitical, cultural, or religious concerns. Yet all of them rely on Ellis’s work to understand the connections of prophetic discourses, religious demands, social movements, and projects of social justice. Paying particular attention to global racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, white supremacy, and current neocolonial practices, the contributors also address minoritized liberation theologies, the role of memory, exile and forgiveness, biblical hermeneutics, and political thought. In diverse and powerful ways, the contributors ground their scholarship with the activist drive to deepen, enrich, and strengthen intellectual work in meaningful ways.

Susanne Scholz is professor of Old Testament at Southern Methodist University Perkins School of Theology. Santiago Slabodsky is the Florence and Robert Kaufman Chair in Jewish Studies at Hofstra University.

Introduction: The Emergence of the Global Prophetic in the New Diaspora
Susanne Scholz and Santiago Slabodsky

Practicing Exile in the New Diaspora as a Jewish Scholar of Conscience: An Interview with Marc H. Ellis
Susanne Scholz and Santiago Slabodsky

Part 1. Beyond Innocence and Redemption: Jews, Race, and Colonization

1.The Last Jew in Gaza
Sara Roy

2.Israel and the Idolatry of Whiteness: The Critique of Race that Marc Ellis Never Knew He Made
Jessica Wai-Fong Wong

3.The Ecumenical Deal, the Judeo-Christian Tradition, and the Christian Colonization of Judaism
Robert O. Smith

4.“When Can You Start?” Marc Ellis’s Contributions from a Jewish Latin American Standpoint
Santiago Slabodsky

Part 2. Unholy Alliance: Other Christianities, Prophetic Liberations

5.A Palestinian Christian Liberation Theologian Encounters a Jewish Liberation Theologian
Naim Ateek

6.Riding with Don Quixote
Miguel A. De La Torre

7.Reading the Hebrew Bible in Solidarity with the Palestin

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Dispatches from the New Diaspora
Co-Autor	Naim Ateek, Karen Baker-Fletcher
Vorwort	Susannah Heschel
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 228 mm
Gewicht	662 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9781978706248 / 9781978706248
Zustand	Neuware