| God and Politics in Esther Revised Edition Contributor(s): Hazony, Yoram (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107132053 ISBN-13: 9781107132054 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $116.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - General - Religion | Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General |
| Dewey: 222.907 |
| LCCN: 2015029113 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.16" W x 9.62" (1.21 lbs) 254 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: A political crisis erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics, and a Jewish insider goes rogue, determined to save her people at all costs. God and Politics in Esther explores politics and faith. It is about an era in which the prophets have been silenced and miracles have ceased, and Jewish politics has come to depend not on commands from on high, but on the boldness and belief of each woman and man. Esther takes radical action to win friends and allies, reverse terrifying decrees, and bring God's justice into the world with her own hands. Hazony's The Dawn has long been a cult classic, read at Purim each year the world over. Twenty years on, this revised edition brings the book to much wider attention. Three controversial new chapters address the astonishingly radical theology that emerges from amid the political intrigues of the book. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hazony, Yoram: - Yoram Hazony is President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem. He is founder and past president of the Shalem Center, now Shalem College. His books include The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture (Cambridge, 2012) and The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul (2009). Hazony directs the John Templeton Foundation's project in Jewish Philosophical Theology and is a member of the Israel Council for Higher Education's committee on liberal studies in Israel's universities. He is a member of the Public Council of the Orthodox rabbinical organization Beit Hillel. |