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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jonathan Immanuel
• Edition: Lexington Books
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781498590754
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9075-4
• Pages: 436
• Thèmes: Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory; Lexington Studies in Modern Je
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Judaïsme; RELIGION / Judaism / History, Christianity, History of Religion, Judaism, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Criticism & Exegesis Of Sacred Texts