Illustrator: None
Format: n/a
Page: 200
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Fortress Press - Minneapolis
Year: 1999
ISBN 10: 0-8006-3159-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-800631-59-8
Book condition: Second-hand, like new, no markings

ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 perceived external and internal threats. In this new context, the history and identity of the Jewish people are being decisively transformed and reinterpreted. What is their destiny?

Ellis sees a "struggle for the heart and soul of the Jewish people," which he locates in the covenant, symbolised by Jerusalem. Raising profound questions for both Jews and Christians, his book offers a renewed theology of the covenant and urges authentic embrace of its justice dimensions, its present "exile," and its future in revolutionary forgiveness.

Spotlight Reviews

  

"In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem, be at the heart of the covenant?' Ellis's answer is that the covenant of with God has been shattered by the creation of a state at the expense of Palestinian life in the land. It can only be renewed by a new ethic and practice of justice that reconcile these two people, who have become irrevocably linked together in the land, either for good or for ill."

Rosemary Radford Ruether Garrett
Evangelical Theological Seminary 

"Marc Ellis has demonstrated great courage, integrity, and insight in the very important work he has been doing for years. It has been an inspiration for all us of."

Noam Chomsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology