Author: Ezra Stiles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Ezra Stiles and the Jews
Author: Ezra Stiles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Ezra Stiles and the Jews
Author: Ezra Stiles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
New Israel/New England
Author: Michael Hoberman
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558499201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the history of colonial New England through the lens of its first settlers Judeocentric worldview
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558499201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the history of colonial New England through the lens of its first settlers Judeocentric worldview
Kabbalah and the Founding of America
Author: Brian Ogren
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479807990
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey penned a letter to one of his closest disciples concerning Kabbalah, or what he called the mystical theology of the Jews. Around that same time, one of the leading Puritan ministers developed a messianic theology based in part on the mystical conversion of the Jews. This led to the actual conversion of a Jew in Boston a few decades later, an event that directly produced the first kabbalistic book conceived of and published in America. That book was read by an eventual president of Yale College, who went on to engage in a deep study of Kabbalah that would prod him to involve the likes of Benjamin Franklin, and to give a public oration at Yale in 1781 calling for an infusion of Kabbalah and Jewish thought into the Protestant colleges of America. Kabbalah and the Founding of America traces the influence of Kabbalah on early Christian Americans. It offers a new picture of Jewish-Christian intellectual exchange in pre-Revolutionary America, and illuminates how Kabbalah helped to shape early American religious sensibilities. The volume demonstrates that key figures, including the well-known Puritan ministers Cotton Mather and Increase Mather and Yale University President Ezra Stiles, developed theological ideas that were deeply influenced by Kabbalah. Some of them set out to create a more universal Kabbalah, developing their ideas during a crucial time of national myth building, laying down precedents for developing notions of American exceptionalism. This book illustrates how, through fascinating and often surprising events, this unlikely inter-religious influence helped shape the United States and American identity.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479807990
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey penned a letter to one of his closest disciples concerning Kabbalah, or what he called the mystical theology of the Jews. Around that same time, one of the leading Puritan ministers developed a messianic theology based in part on the mystical conversion of the Jews. This led to the actual conversion of a Jew in Boston a few decades later, an event that directly produced the first kabbalistic book conceived of and published in America. That book was read by an eventual president of Yale College, who went on to engage in a deep study of Kabbalah that would prod him to involve the likes of Benjamin Franklin, and to give a public oration at Yale in 1781 calling for an infusion of Kabbalah and Jewish thought into the Protestant colleges of America. Kabbalah and the Founding of America traces the influence of Kabbalah on early Christian Americans. It offers a new picture of Jewish-Christian intellectual exchange in pre-Revolutionary America, and illuminates how Kabbalah helped to shape early American religious sensibilities. The volume demonstrates that key figures, including the well-known Puritan ministers Cotton Mather and Increase Mather and Yale University President Ezra Stiles, developed theological ideas that were deeply influenced by Kabbalah. Some of them set out to create a more universal Kabbalah, developing their ideas during a crucial time of national myth building, laying down precedents for developing notions of American exceptionalism. This book illustrates how, through fascinating and often surprising events, this unlikely inter-religious influence helped shape the United States and American identity.
Ezra Stiles and the Jews
Author: George Alexander Kohut
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330264997
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Excerpt from Ezra Stiles and the Jews: Selected Passages From His Literary Diary Concerning Jews and Judaism The fact that Yale College, which celebrated its bicentennial at New Haven last week (Oct. 1901) with so much eclat, has on its corporate seal, in addition to a Latin inscription, one in Hebrew, is a significant as well as a curious circumstance. "In the beginning of the foundation of this plantation and jurisdiction, upon a free debate with due and serious consideration, it was agreed, concluded and settled as a fundamental law, not to be disputed or questioned here after, that the judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses and expounded in other parts of Scripture, so far as they are a fence to the moral law, being neither typical nor ceremonial, nor having a reference to Canaan, shall be accepted as of moral equity, and as God shall help, shall be a constant direction for all proceedings here and a general rule for all courts in this jurisdiction, how to judge between party and party and how to punish offenders, till the same be branched out into particulars hereafter." This vigorous avowal of the binding force of Old Testament doctrine had much to do in shaping the destinies of the colony and university. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330264997
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Excerpt from Ezra Stiles and the Jews: Selected Passages From His Literary Diary Concerning Jews and Judaism The fact that Yale College, which celebrated its bicentennial at New Haven last week (Oct. 1901) with so much eclat, has on its corporate seal, in addition to a Latin inscription, one in Hebrew, is a significant as well as a curious circumstance. "In the beginning of the foundation of this plantation and jurisdiction, upon a free debate with due and serious consideration, it was agreed, concluded and settled as a fundamental law, not to be disputed or questioned here after, that the judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses and expounded in other parts of Scripture, so far as they are a fence to the moral law, being neither typical nor ceremonial, nor having a reference to Canaan, shall be accepted as of moral equity, and as God shall help, shall be a constant direction for all proceedings here and a general rule for all courts in this jurisdiction, how to judge between party and party and how to punish offenders, till the same be branched out into particulars hereafter." This vigorous avowal of the binding force of Old Testament doctrine had much to do in shaping the destinies of the colony and university. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Ezra Stiles and the Jews
Author: Ezra Stiles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
The Jewish Encyclopedia
Author: Isidore Singer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
The Story of Hebrew
Author: Lewis Glinert
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691183090
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most intense textual cultures ever known. Hebrew was a bridge to Greek and Arab science, and it unlocked the biblical sources for Jerome and the Reformation. Kabbalists and humanists sought philosophical truth in it, and Colonial Americans used it to shape their own Israelite political identity. Today, it is the first language of millions of Israelis. A major work of scholarship, The Story of Hebrew is an unforgettable account of what one language has meant and continues to mean.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691183090
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most intense textual cultures ever known. Hebrew was a bridge to Greek and Arab science, and it unlocked the biblical sources for Jerome and the Reformation. Kabbalists and humanists sought philosophical truth in it, and Colonial Americans used it to shape their own Israelite political identity. Today, it is the first language of millions of Israelis. A major work of scholarship, The Story of Hebrew is an unforgettable account of what one language has meant and continues to mean.
The Jews in America
Author: Arthur Hertzberg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231108416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A brilliant, challenging revisionist history of the Jewish experience in America by Arthur Hertzberg, political leader, rabbi, social historian, and one of America'a most eminent Jewish thinkers.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231108416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A brilliant, challenging revisionist history of the Jewish experience in America by Arthur Hertzberg, political leader, rabbi, social historian, and one of America'a most eminent Jewish thinkers.
EZRA STILES & THE JEWS SEL PAS
Author: Ezra 1727-1795 Stiles
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781360281537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781360281537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description