- Last Name
- SHECHTER
- First Name
- Jack
- Title
- The Land of Israel: Its Theological Dimensions: A Study of Promise and of a Land's "Holiness"
- Publisher
- University Press of America
- Year
- 2010
- Group
- PRO3 AIC3
- Comments
- Amazon Review/s
Contents:
- pt. 1. The nature of the promise. The land as gift
- The land as oath
- The land and the law
- The integration of the unconditional and conditional covenants
- The land in the prophets and the writings
- The land in Talmudic and medieval periods
- The land in the modern period
- pt. 2. The meaning of "holy" land. The land as good land
- The land as possibility and peril
- Israel and the "nations" in the land
- The land as a "holy land"
- Supplements.
- I. The land : what geographical entity?
- II. The unconditional character of the Abrahamic covenant: challenge and response
- III. The land of Israel: what is "holy" and what is not: the rabbinic perspective amplified
- IV. The use, and misuse, of biblical rabbinic data about the land
- V. The Jewish people and the land of Israel: a union for service to humankind
- VI. What binds diaspora Jewry to Israel?
- VII. Religion and state : the ongoing tension
- Synopsis : an interview
- Questions : what do the theological materials in this work mean for our time?
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