Book contents
- Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence
- Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Moses Mendelssohn and the Rabbinic Suspending of Coercive Punishment
- Chapter 2 Who Can Command Violence, and Who Should Obey?
- Chapter 3 Jewishness and the Prophetic Anarchism of Hermann Cohen
- Chapter 4 Franz Rosenzweig and the Jewish Alternative to Militarism
- Chapter 5 Walter Benjamin and the Antinomianism of Classical Rabbinic Judaism
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Sources
- Index of Subjects
Chapter 1 - Moses Mendelssohn and the Rabbinic Suspending of Coercive Punishment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2023
- Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence
- Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Moses Mendelssohn and the Rabbinic Suspending of Coercive Punishment
- Chapter 2 Who Can Command Violence, and Who Should Obey?
- Chapter 3 Jewishness and the Prophetic Anarchism of Hermann Cohen
- Chapter 4 Franz Rosenzweig and the Jewish Alternative to Militarism
- Chapter 5 Walter Benjamin and the Antinomianism of Classical Rabbinic Judaism
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Sources
- Index of Subjects
Summary
Chapter 1 examines Moses Mendelssohn’s claim that Jewish legal violence has been suspended following the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and is no longer legitimate. While other scholars have viewed this claim as a departure from previous Jewish thought, this chapter shows that Mendelssohn’s assertions stand in close connection to classical rabbinic understandings of the relation between violence and the Temple.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023