| Apostates, Hybrids, or True Jews: Jewish Christians and Jewish Identity in Eastern Europe, 1860-1914 Contributor(s): Lillevik, Raymond (Author) |
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ISBN: 0227174933 ISBN-13: 9780227174937 Publisher: James Clarke Company OUR PRICE: $44.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - Theology - Religion | Theology - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 274 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 402 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: This book explores the relationship between Christian faith and Jewish identity from the perspective of three Jewish believers in Jesus living in eastern and central Europe before World War 1: Rudolf Hermann (Chaim) Gurland, Christian Theophilus Lucky (Chaim Jedidjah Pollak), and Isaac (Ignatz) Lichtenstein. They were all rabbis or had rabbinic education, and were in different ways combining their faith in Jesus as Messiah with a Jewish identity. The book offers a biographical study of the three men and an analysis of their understandings of identity. This analysis considers five categories for identification: the relation of Gurland, Lucky, and Lichtenstein to Jewish tradition, to the Jewish people, to Christian tradition, to the Christian community, and to the network of Jewish believers in Jesus. Lillevik argues that Gurland, Lucky, and Lichtenstein in very different ways transcended essentialist as well as constructionist ideas of Jewish and Christian identity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lillevik, Raymond: - Raymond Lillevik (PhD) is lecturer in Kristen Videregående skole in Nordland, Nesna in Norway. |