TY - BOOK ID - 78714986 TI - The Gods are broken! PY - 2013 SN - 0827611420 1299132405 9780827611429 9780827609310 0827609310 9781299132405 PB - Philadelphia DB - UniCat KW - Antisemitism. KW - Monotheism KW - Iconoclasm. KW - Idols and images KW - Iconoclasm KW - Pantheism KW - Religion KW - Theism KW - Trinity KW - Polytheism KW - Anti-Jewish attitudes KW - Anti-Semitism KW - Ethnic relations KW - Prejudices KW - Philosemitism KW - Biblical teaching. KW - Worship KW - History KW - Abraham KW - Abraham, KW - Abram KW - Abramo KW - Abū al-Anbiyāʼ Ibrāhīm al-Khalīl KW - Abŭraham KW - Avraam KW - Avraham KW - Avram KW - Halil-ül-Rahman İbrahim KW - Ibrāhīm al-Khalīl KW - Ibrahim KW - İbrahim, KW - Khalīl Allāh KW - Nabi Ibrahim KW - אברהם KW - אברהם אבינו KW - إبراهيم الخليل KW - Bible. KW - Midrash rabbah. KW - Be-reshit rabah KW - Bereshit rabah KW - Bereshit rabba KW - Genesis rabbah KW - Ber. r. KW - Genesis rabba KW - Be-reshit (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Bereshit (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Bytie (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Chʻangsegi (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Genesis (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Sifr al-Takwīn KW - Takwīn (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Be-reshit raba KW - Bereshit de-Rabbi Oshaya Rabbah KW - Be-reshit de-Rabi Oshayah Rabah KW - Be-reshit de-Rabi Hoshayah Rabah KW - Genesis of R. Oshaya Rabbah KW - Genesis of Rabbi Oshaya Rabbah KW - Midrash Be-reshit rabah KW - Midrash Be-reshit raba KW - Agadat Erets Yiśraʼel KW - מדרש בראשית רבה KW - בראשית רבה KW - מדרש בראשית רבא KW - בראשית רבא KW - בראשית דרבי אושעיה רבה KW - בראשית דרבי הושעיה רבה KW - אגדת ארץ ישראל UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78714986 AB - The story of Abraham smashing his father's idols might be the most important Jewish story ever told and the key to how Jews define themselves. In a work at once deeply erudite and wonderfully accessible, Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin conducts readers through the life and legacy of this powerful story and explains how it has shaped Jewish consciousness. Offering a radical view of Jewish existence, The Gods Are Broken! views the story of the young Abraham as the "primal trauma" of Jewish history, one critical to the development of a certain Jewish comfort with rebelliousness and one t ER -