| Gog and Magog Contributor(s): Buber, Martin (Author), Lewisohn, Ludwig (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0815605897 ISBN-13: 9780815605898 Publisher: Syracuse University Publications in Continuin OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1999 Annotation: Originally titled For the Sake of Heaven, Gog and Magog is a fictional religious chronicle in which the heroes are Hasidic rabbis. The setting for the novel is Poland and Hungary during the Napoleonic wars at the end of the eighteenth century. Although magic and superstition play their parts in the story, it is really Martin Buber's effort to articulate two approaches to the question: May men use evil to accomplish good? May men take power into their own hands - even to do the work of redemption - without submitting first to the will of God? More particularly, Buber unfolds the inner world of messianic longing and expectations that characterized Judaism then and continues to characterize it to the present day. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Christian - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98-51564 |
| Series: Martin Buber Library |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.55" W x 8.06" (0.81 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - German - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Previously published by Atheneum in 1981, this is a religious chronicle in fictional form, with Hasidic rabbis as its heroes. Buber unfolds the inner world of messianic longing and expectation that characterized Judaism then and continues to characterize it to the present day. In the MARTIN BUBER LIBRARY series. |
