| Description |
233 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. Jerusalem: a charismatic city -- You only see when you hear -- The Intimation of an answer -- The Widow is a bride again -- The Wall -- City in trance -- The Challenge -- 2. Engagement to the land -- To Repudiate the Bible? -- The Bible is our destiny -- The Eclipse of the Bible -- Singularity -- The Drama -- Continuously asserting our right -- In Dialogue with the land -- Memory -- Dwelling in the land -- Emissaries -- 3. Between Hope and distress -- Hope -- Waiting -- Promise -- Distress -- The Miracle of the resurrection -- Disaster -- Pioneers -- The Land -- 4. Israel and meaning in history -- Memory of history -- History is not consumed -- Living toward redemption -- Mount Sinai and Mount Moriah -- The Allegorization of the Bible -- Body and spirit -- Immediacy of meaning -- 5. Jews, Christians, Arabs -- Two levels of redemption -- The Christian approach -- Islam and the land of Israel -- Arabs and Israel -- 6. A Rendezvous with history -- Remember -- A Re-examination -- A Spiritual underground -- Gratitude -- A Community of concern -- Peace -- Meaning -- Index. |
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Palestine -- In Judaism.
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Israel.
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Israel.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972. Israel: an echo of eternity. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1969] (OCoLC)613952719 |
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