Britain, the Bible, and Balfour - Mandate for a Jewish State, 15301917

This volume examines the unique historical and religious forces that led to the Balfour Declaration and argues that Britain, for more than two centuries, already possessed the ingredients for a theopolitical vision of a Jewish home state.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part. I The Root of the Matter 1530-1840

1 England's Political Reformation

2 The Rise of the Puritans

3 A Jew in Peru

4 "No More Our Ancient Enemy"

5 The Hartlib Circle

6 Cromwell's Secular Dilemma

7 Three wise Machiavellians

8 A Complex Messiah

9 Deists Assault the Bible

10 A Tale of Two Enlightenments

11 Science and Restoration in the Age of Reason

Part II From Belief to Action 1840-1914

12 Shaftesbury and Palmerston: "The Time has Come"

13 Two Rabbis and a Socialist Saint

14 The View from Afar. America, Australia and Russia

15 Gladstone or Disraeli

16 The Evolution of George Eliot

17 Herzl in Wonderland

18 Science, Faith and Balfour

Postscript

Bibliography

About the Author

About the author

Jonathan Immanuel is a fellow of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Jerusalem.

Summary

This volume examines the unique historical and religious forces that led to the Balfour Declaration and argues that Britain, for more than two centuries, already possessed the ingredients for a theopolitical vision of a Jewish home state.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Immanuel
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781498590754
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9075-4
• No. of pages: 436
• Series: Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory; Lexington Studies in Modern Je; Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / History, Christianity, History of Religion, Judaism, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Criticism & Exegesis Of Sacred Texts, Jewish texts: Tanakh, Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim