Semitism: The Whence and Whither, 'How Dear Are Your Counsels'

by Kenneth Cragg

Semitism is a human story of distinctive intimacy with a God, believed to belong with birth, sealed in history and homed in given territory. These three denominators of tribe, territory and remembered time belong to all human identities, understood as one creation in a single cosmos in the Bible and the Qur'an. Anti-Semitism is a tragic misprision of this long conviction of the Judaic mind, bringing endless suffering to the one, shame and guilt to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845190718
• ISBN13: 9781845190712
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.7"