Gog And Magog: A Novel

by MARTIN BUBER

2021-01-10 09:27:40

Gog and Magog is a religious chronicle in fictional form. Its heroes are Hasidic rabbis. Its background is the Napoleonic wars at the end of the eighteenth century. Its scene is laid in Poland and Hungary.Although magic and superstition play their pa... Read more
Gog and Magog is a religious chronicle in fictional form. Its heroes are Hasidic rabbis. Its background is the Napoleonic wars at the end of the eighteenth century. Its scene is laid in Poland and Hungary.

Although magic and superstition play their parts in the story, it is really Buber''s effort to articulate two approaches to the question: May men use evil to accomplish good? May men take power in their own hans -- even to do the work of redemption -- without submitting first to the will of God? More particularly Buber unfolds the inner world of messianic longing and expectation that characterized Judaism then and continues to characterize it to the present day. Less

Book Details

File size8 X 5.5 X 0.71 in
Print pages320
PublisherSyracuse University Press
Publication date March 1, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780815605898
Martin Buber ( Feb 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian Jewish and Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the...

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