A Prophetic Peace: Judaism, Religion, and Politics

by Alick Isaacs

Challenging deeply held convictions about Judaism, Zionism, war, and peace, Alick Isaacs's combat experience in the second Lebanon war provoked him to search for a way of reconciling the belligerence of religion with its messages of peace. In his insightful readings of the texts of Biblical prophecy and rabbinic law, Isaacs draws on the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Martin Buber, among others, to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253356849
• ISBN13: 9780253356840
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher