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God's Chosen People

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Judaism's Most Divisive Doctrine

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvSamuel Lebens

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At the heart of the Jewish religion is a doctrine that has proven to be deeply divisive. It claims that the Jewish people have a special relationship with God, that they have been chosen. This teaching has divided Jews and gentiles because it seems to imply a Jewish supremacism. Even within the Jewish world, thinkers have disagreed about its meaning and value. Some Jewish communities have rejected it outright.In God's Chosen People, Samuel Lebens seeks to demonstrate that the doctrine is essential to Jewish theology via a wide-ranging journey of original biblical literary analysis, exploration of Midrashic metaphors, Jewish intellectual history, and analytical philosophy. He claims that properly understanding it allows us to articulate what the purpose of Judaism is, according to Judaism itself.What emerges is a vision of Judaism shorn of religious extremism and xenophobia, a religion that doesn't claim to have a monopoly over religious truth or God's affections. Instead, Lebens claims that Judaism is called upon to play a unique role in the history of the world. The doctrine of the election, so understood, has radical implications for Jewish ritual, inter-faith relations, and the future of Zionism.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-04
Mått165 x 242 x 21 mm
Vikt841 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Studies in Analytic Theology
Antal sidor464
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198994305

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Samuel Lebens is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Haifa. His work spans a wide range of interests from the philosophy of Bertrand Russell to the teachings of the Hassidic Masters. He has published articles on topics ranging from religious epistemology to the ontology of literature. He was the founding chairperson of the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism and is an Orthodox Rabbi.

1: Choosing a Theory of Chosenness Part I. The Biblical Data 2: The Narrative Arc of the Bible 3: Disarming Difficult Texts 4: Chosenness in the Book of Genesis 5: God's Bride 6: A Kingdom of Priests 7: More Biblical Data and Textual Tensions 8: Summarizing the Election as It Appears in the Hebrew Bible Part II. The Rabbinic Data 9: Disarming the Rabbis 10: Eternity and History 11: Stiff-Necked Arsonists 12: Mediation and the Image of Jacob 13: Chosenness in Liturgy Part III. A Critical History of Chosenness in Jewish Thought 14: Medieval Philosophy and Saadya Gaon 15: Maimonides 16: Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Levi 17: Is God a Person? 18: Supra-Rationalism: Ibn Pakuda, Crescas, and Albo 19: Supra-Rationalism Assessed 20: The Mystical Tradition 21: Rabbi Lipschutz and the Two-Track Model 22: Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and the Two-Track Model 23: Scrutinizing the Two-Track Model 24: Franz Rosenzweig 25: Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook 26: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson 27: Rabbi Sacks and The Dignity of Difference Part IV. A Theory of Chosenness 28: Reclaiming the Genesis Model 29: Reframing the Marriage Model 30: A Holy Priesthood 31: Revisiting the Rabbis 32: 'Radical Then, Radical Now'