Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism

Michael L. Morgan is the Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University.Steven Weitzman, the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism whose most recent publications include Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom and a second revised edition of The Jews: A History.

• IntroductionMichael L. Morgan and Steven Weitzman Part I. Blurred Lines and Open Secrets in Early Jewish Messianism1. Messianism between Judaism and Christianity Annette Yoshiko Reed 2. He that Cometh Out: On How to Disclose a Messianic Secret Steven Weitzman Part II. Between Here and Eternity in Medieval Judaism3. Maimonides and the Idea of a Deflationary Messiah Kenneth Seeskin4. 'And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight': Twisted Messianic Visions, and a Maimonidean Corrective Menachen Kellner5. Seeking the Symmetry of Time: The Messianic Age in Medieval Chronology Elisheva Carlebach Part III. Messianism and Ethics in Modern Jewish Thought6. Messianism and Ethics Matt Goldish7. To Infinity and Beyond: Cohen and Rosenzweig on Comportment towards Redemption Benjamin Pollock8. Levinas and Messianism Michael L. MorganPart IV. Politics and Anti-Politics in Contemporary Jewish Messianism9. What Zvi Yehudah Kook Wrought: The Theopolitical Radicalization of Religious ZionismShai Held10. Messianic Religious Zionism and the Reintroduction of Sacrifice: The Case of the Temple InstituteMotti Inbari11. The Muted Messiah: The Aversion to Messianic Forms of Zionism in Modern Orthodox ThoughtDavid Shatz12. The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking Chabad MessianismShaul Magid Part V. Messianism between Religious and Secular Imagination13. Isadore Isou's Messianism Awry Cosana Eram14. Arthur A. Cohen's Messianic Fiction Emily Kopley15. Reading Messianically with Gershom Scholem Martin KavkaIndex

Lehrer and Meng have edited an important interdisciplinary work, which should make an immediate impact on the field of Polish Jewish Studies.(Religious Studies Review) [A]ppropriate for academic collections that are either comprehensive or include a specialization on messianism.Sept 2015(AJL Reviews)