Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations

Pamela Barmash (Curatore)

W. David Nelson (Curatore)

Lexington Books, 2015

Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations investigates how the Exodus has been, and continues to be, a crucial source of identity for both Jews and Judaism. It explores how the Exodus has functioned as the primary model from which Jews have created theological meaning and historical self-understanding. It probes how and why the Exodus has continued to be vital to Jews throughout the unfolding of the Jewish experience. As an interdisciplinary work, it incorporates contributions from a range of Jewish Studies scholars in order to explore the Exodus from a variety of vantage points. It addresses such topics as: the Jewish reception of the biblical text of Exodus; the progressive unfolding of the Exodus in the Jewish interpretive tradition; the religious expression of the Exodus as ritual in Judaism; and the Exodus as an ongoing lens of self-understanding for both the State of Israel and contemporary Judaism. The essays are guided by a common goal: to render comprehensible how the re-envisioning of Exodus throughout the unfolding of the Jewish experience has enabled it to function for thousands of years as the central motif for the Jewish people.

• Curatore: Pamela Barmash, W. David Nelson
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 270 p.
• Dimensioni: 233 x 162 mm
• Peso: 581 gr.
• EAN: 9781498502924

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