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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958484003321

Autore

Agus Aharon R. E (Aharon Ronald Ellis), <1943->

Titolo

The binding of Isaac and Messiah : law, martyrdom, and deliverance in early rabbinic religiosity / / Aharon (Ronald E.) Agus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 1988

©1988

ISBN

0-7914-9436-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 327 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in Judaica

Disciplina

296.09015

Soggetti

Martyrdom - Judaism

Messiah

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography (p. 297-298) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Front Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table Of Contents""; ""Partial List of Abbreviations""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""The Mother of the Sons""; ""Martyrdom and the Law""; ""The Binding of Isaac""; ""Honi ha-Me' aggel""; ""R. Hanina ben Dosa""; ""Nahum ish Gamzo and R. Hananiah ben Teradyon""; ""If I Am Here, All Are Here""; ""If Not Now, When? Repentance""; ""Pangs of Messiah""; ""The Binding of Messiah: Messiah Ben Joseph""; ""When the Messiah""; ""Back Matter""; ""Notes""; ""General Index""; ""Index of Sages"" ""Index of Biblical Sources"" ""Index of Rabbinic Sources""

Sommario/riassunto

The author provides an interpretation of the words of Jews living during the intertestamental period and through the third century, including several hassidim. A hermeneutics grounded in the perception of early Rabbinic texts as sharing in events rather than as linguistically autonomous is used.  The phenomenology of Jewish martyrdom is read as an acting-out of the Binding of Isaac. The search leads into the question of the bindingness of the La. The The religious soul's passion for the revelation of Law is followed out in its path of temptation to martyrdom. A grand drama of sacrifice and messianic yearnings is thereby unearthed. Aharon (Ronald E.) Agus is lecturer on rabbinic



thinking at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel.