Marc Ellis

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  Encountering The Jewish Future

  $25.00

  Introduction
  Chapter 1 Encountering The Holocaust
  Elie Wiesel
  Chapter 2 Encountering The Bible
  Martin Buber
  Chapter 3 Encountering Modernity After
  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  Chapter 4 Encountering The Hidden Tradition Of Jewish Dissent
  Hannah Arendt
  Chapter 5 Encountering The Jewish Prophetic
  Emmanuel Levinas
  Epilogue: Encountering The Jewish Future
  Notes
  Index

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  Marc Ellis maintains that the most vital questions about Judaism are prefigured in the work of Elie Wiesel, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas. Ellis’s work is framed by encounters with each thinker’s work, focusing on topics of God, the Holocaust, the prophetic legacy, philosophical and ethical standpoints, and Jewish empowerment and dissent.

  Two generations after the Holocaust and Israel’s founding, Ellis argues that the uncertain future of Judaism requires a deeply personal and intellectual exploration of Jewish tradition and identity, in conversation with the best philosophical and theological minds of recent years.

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  Practicing Exile : The Religious Odyssey Of An American Jew

  $19.00

  At once a memoir and an examination of conscience, Ellis’ autobiographical starting points spark reflections on Jewish-Christian relations, liberation theology, religion and politics, and issues of justice in Israel and Palestine. His experiences also occasion meditations on solitude and solidarity, gratitude and alienation, memory and responsibilty. They exemplify how religiously committed persons, though exiled forever from yesterday’s certitudes, can yet practice covenantal fidelity.

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  O Jerusalem : The Contested Future Of The Jewish Covenant

  $21.00

  This century has bequeathed to the Jewish people a series of events “with horrific and startling consequences” including the Holocaust, the birth of the state of Israel, and now a powerful military state capable of defense against outsiders and repression of Palestines. In this new context, the history and identity of the Jewish people are being decisively transformed and reinterprted. What is their destiny? In this “struggle for the heart and soul of the Jewish people” Ellis asks. “Are there religious ideals, intellectual concepts, and political movements…that will help Jews confront the history we are creating, calling us toward justice?” Ellis finds that dynamic center in the covenant, symbolized by Jerusalem. His book offers a renewed theology of the covenant and its justice dimensions, its present “exile” and its future in revolutionary forgiveness. Raising profound questions for Jews and Christians, Ellis persuasively argues that authentically embracing the covenant first entails justice–most immediately for the Palestinian people.

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