TY - BOOK ID - 78143521 TI - Rethinking the messianic idea in Judaism AU - Morgan, Michael L. AU - Weitzman, Steven PY - 2015 SN - 0253014778 9780253014771 0253014697 9780253014696 0253014743 9780253014740 9780253014696 9780253014740 PB - Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Messianic era (Judaism) KW - Eschatology, Jewish KW - Jews KW - Messiah KW - Restoration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143521 AB - "Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today"-- ER -