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SHMUELI, EFRAIM; SHMUELI, GILA (transl.) - Seven Jewish Cultures: A Reinterpretation of Jewish History and Thought
New York, Cambridge University Press, 1990. 293 pp. Very good copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Professor Shmueli has synthesized history, philosophy, biblical scholarship, sociology, literature and psychology into an original and profound new view of Jewish history. Jewish history is viewed as an unfolding of seven successive systems of cultures, where each culture emerges in its time both as a rebel and a successor of previous cultures. Each presents itself as a distinct and often startlingly different framework in which the meaning of Jewish life is always interpreted anew. In this sense, Jewish history may be said to have undergone seven great "Renaissances." This study emphasizes the chasm that divides the five "cultures of faith" from the secular cultures of the Emancipation and nationalist-Israeli periods. Shmueli argues that the cultures of modernity have created a new frame of reference for the Jewish people. No longer is Jewish history viewed as a divine drama, and no longer is the Bible seen as the hermeneutical key to all Jewish problems. Both in Israel and outside it, claims Shmueli, there is a need for a new balance that will retain the creative elements of the past and, at the same time, permit reinterpretation and change. ISBN: 9780521373814
EUR 13.08 [Appr.: US$ 14.15 | £UK 11.25 | JP¥ 2220] Booknumber: 50728
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EUR 13.08 [Appr.: US$ 14.15 | £UK 11.25 | JP¥ 2220] Booknumber: 50728
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