TY  - BOOK
AU  - Novak,David
TI  - The election of Israel: the idea of the chosen people 
SN  - 0521416906
AV  - BM613 .N68 1995
U1  - ARCH YNDC 296.311 N935E 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York, NY, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Jews
KW  - Election, Doctrine of
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Identity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-277) and index; Spinoza and his challenge -- Hermann Cohen's concept of election -- Franz Rosenzweig's return to the doctrine -- The retrieval of the biblical doctrine -- The rabbinic development of the doctrine -- Two medieval views of election
N2  - In this book, David Novak conducts a historical, philosophical, and theological reflection on the central Jewish doctrine of Israel's election by God, also known as the idea of the chosen people. historically, he analyzes the great change in modern jewish thought brought about by Spinoza's inversion of the doctrine: that it was not god, who elected Israel, but Israel who elected god
ER  -