Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus: The Impact of Zionism on Joseph Klausner’s History of the Second Temple

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction ix
4. The Cultural Environment: Challenge and Response
5. Identity, Ideology, and Faith: Some Personal Reflections on the Social, Cultural and Spiritual Value of the Academic Study of Judaism 1
6. Judaism and General Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Times 21
7. How Did Nahmanides Propose to Resolve the Maimonidean Controversy? 117
8. Miracles and the Natural Order in Nahmanides 129
9. Polemic, Exegesis, Philosophy, and Science: Reflections on the Tenacity of Ashkenazic Modes of Thought 152
10. Malbim’s Secular Knowledge and His Relationship to the Spirit of the Haskalah 167
11. The Uses of Maimonides by Twentieth-Century Jewry 190
12. The Institute for Jewish Studies on its Eightieth Anniversary 203
13. Interpreting the Bible
14. ‘The Wisest of All Men’: Solomon’s Wisdom in Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Book of Kings 215
15. On the Morality of the Patriarchs in Jewish Polemic and Exegesis 236
16. Yearning for Redemption
17. Three Typological Themes in Early Jewish Messianism: Messiah son of Joseph, Rabbinic Calculations, and the Figure of Armilus 253
18. Some Ironic Consequences of Maimonides’ Rationalist Approach to the Messianic Age 278
19. Sephardic and Ashkenazic Messianism in the Middle Ages: An Examination of the Historiographical Controversy 289
20. Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus: The Impact of Zionism on Joseph Klausner’s History of the Second Temple 312
21. The Fragility of Religious Doctrine: Accounting for Orthodox Acquiescence in the Belief in a Second Coming 326
22. Epilogue
23. The Image of his Father: On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Death of Hadoar Author Isaiah Berger 343
24. Index 351