Scroll Or the Sword ?

Cohen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

147 Seiten

1997
Routledge (Verlag)
9789057020834 (ISBN)

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A detailed analysis of contemporary Jewish religious attitudes towards armed service in Israel, this volume draws on a range of classical and modern sources to illustrate the variety of current theological challenges to Israel's military cohesion.

First Published in 1997. The title of this book is derived from an ancient Jewish teaching, attributed to a certain Rabbi Eleazar of Modi'in, who lived in the land of Israel during the third century of the common era. As far as we know, Rabbi Eleazar was the first sage to take homiletic advantage of the alliteration of safra and saifa, Aramaic terms which literally translate (respectively) as 'a scroll' and 'a sword'. A plain reading of this text leaves no doubt that its author intended to project a figurative contrast between two distinct spheres of human endeavour.

Stuart A. Cohen Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel

Chapter 1 Decisions for War and Non-War; Chapter 2 From Integration to Segregation; Chapter 3 The Religious Boundaries of Military Service in Israel; Chapter 4 Religious Military Units in the IDF;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.6.1997
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9789057020834 / 9789057020834
Zustand	Neuware