Paul the Cosmopolitan?

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-163
Author(s):  
Christopher D. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
World Order ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
Christ Followers ◽  
Present World ◽  
Local Jewish Community ◽  
The Ideal

The apostle Paul has been viewed by many as a cosmopolitan thinker who called Christ-followers to embrace the ideal of a single humanity living in harmony with a divinely ordered cosmos. A close comparison of Paul's apocalyptic theology with various interpretations of ‘cosmopolitanism’ over the centuries, however, shows few points of agreement. Paul was fundamentally a Jewish sectarian whose vision for a better world embraced only Christ-followers and involved the cataclysmic end of the present world order. Those who accepted and lived by this vision were effectively relegated to the same marginal position in civic life as the local Jewish community.

scholarly journals Jesus-Believing Jews in Australia: Celebrate Messiah as a Case Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dvir Abramovich
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Messianic Judaism ◽  
Local Jewish Community

This article is the first to examine the messianic Jewish movement, or Jesus-believing Jews, in Australia. It focuses on the Celebrate Messiah organization and its transplanted messianic congregation Beit Hamashiach in Melbourne, Australia. Discussed are Celebrate Messiah's efforts in spreading its message among the Jewish people, and its strained relationship with the local Jewish community. In addition, the essay offers a wide-ranging mapping of the historical emergence of Messianic Judaism, its basic tenets, growth in Israel, as well as the attendant controversy it has generated.

Explaining the Inexplicable

2008 ◽  
pp. 134-142
Author(s):  
David Berger
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Orthodox Jews ◽  
Formal Relations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Modern Orthodox ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter provides some tentative explanations for Chabad messianism. One of these explanations is the ideal of unity and the avoidance of communal strife. Every practising Jew has heard countless sermons about the imperative to love one's neighbour, particularly one's Jewish neighbour. While rhetoric about this value cuts across all Orthodox—and Jewish—lines, it is especially compelling for Modern Orthodox Jews who maintain cordial, even formal relations with other denominations and pride themselves on embracing an ideal of tolerance. No Orthodox Jew believes that everyone committed to the Jewish community has the right to serve as an Orthodox rabbi because of the value of unity. The appeal to this principle is relevant only after one has concluded that Lubavitch messianism is essentially within the boundaries of Orthodoxy. Since this is precisely what is at issue, the argument begs the question. The chapter then considers the explanations concerning orthopraxy, the balkanization of Orthodoxy, and Orthodox interdependence.

Citizens' Rights and Human Rights

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Legomsky
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Community Continuity ◽  
Present World

Given the burgeoning literature on the devaluation of national citizenship and the effects of globalization, the sources and beneficiaries of individual legal rights assume increased importance. This Article seeks to distinguish those legal rights that states should confine to their own citizens from those that flow from residence, immigration status, territorial presence, or simply personhood. Section I examines the very reasons for states to distribute citizenship in the first place. These reasons relate to participatory democracy, immigration privileges, other rights and disabilities, personal emotional fulfillment, building community, continuity over time, sovereignty, and the world order. It finds unconvincing those reasons that rest on the municipal interests of states but, given the present world order, finds those reasons that are rooted in international relations more compelling. Building on those conclusions, Section II considers a second normative question: What are the key variables that should determine whether a given legal right should be confined to citizens rather than made more generally available to all persons or at least selected classes of noncitizens? Section III then illustrates how one country—the United States—parcels out legal rights and examines whether its decisions comport with the demands of international human rights law.

scholarly journals Tarnovo Church Council in 1360 and the Bulgarian-Jewish Religious Conflict from 1350ies

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Hristo Saldzhiev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Christian Population ◽  
Local Jewish Community

The article focuses on problems relating to the Jewish community’s origin in medieval Tarnovo, the reasons that provoked the Bulgarian-Jewish conflict from the 1350ies and its aftermaths. The hypothesis that Tarnovo Jews originated from Byzantine and appeared in medieval Bulgarian capital at the end of the 12th century as manufacturers of silk is proposed. The religious clash from the 1350ies is ascribed to the influence exerted by some Talmudic anti-Christian texts on the local Jewish community, to the broken inner status-quo between Christians and Jews after the second marriage of the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander and to the reactions of part of the Christian population against the breach of this status-quo.

scholarly journals The Zionist Press on Lithuanian-Jewish Economic Rivalry in the 1930s

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Eglė Bendikaitė
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Press ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Ideal

The Zionists were fully aware that the ideal that they propagated in relation to the creation of a political home for the whole Jewish nation could not be implemented overnight. Therefore, the concern about the socio-economic situation of the Jewish community was one of the main issues of Zionist activity in the Diaspora. The consequences of the world Depression of the 1930s, domineering nationalistic ideology, a big wave of anti-Semitism in Western Europe aroused strong public emotions in Lithuania, which manifested themselves mainly in the struggle for the ‘neglected’ economic positions in the country. This article attempts to reveal how the economic rivalry between the Lithuanians and the Jews was seen and presented in the Zionist press, most widespread and widely read by people of various political viewpoints in the 1930s. The information contained in the Zionist press throws light on the formation of the attitude towards the national economic programme conducted by Lithuanian authorities, placing emphasis on the importance of export and import, the qualification examination of artisans, the law on holidays and rest days, etc. Attention is also paid to the propaganda of the Association of Lithuanian Merchants, Manufacturers and Artisans (established in 1930), and the specifics of their rhetoric. The press response to professional competition, narrowing the spheres of the engagement of Jews and the propaganda of hatred towards the Jewish nation are also dealt with.

scholarly journals The Myth of the 'Law-Free' Paul Standing between Christians and Jews

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Nanos
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Essential Difference ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
The Law ◽  
Christ Followers ◽  
Prevailing View

Christians and Jews agree that the Apostle Paul did not observe Torah as a matter of faith, or in his daily life, except when he sought to evangelize among Jews who observed Torah. This perspective and the reasoning provided to explain it conceptualize the essential difference between Christianity and Judaism as revolving around Paul and his supposedly "Law-free Gospel," more so than around Jesus and his teachings. This understanding derives from the perception that Paul did not observe Jewish dietary norms, and that, moreover, he taught other Christ-followers not to observe them. This essay engages the primary texts on which this is based (Gal 2:11-15; 1 Cor 8—10; Rom 14—15) and finds that, contrary to the prevailing view, they show that Paul implicitly and even explicitly supported Jewish dietary norms among Christ-followers. The results challenge centuries of interpretation, with broad implications for Christian and Jewish portrayals of Paul and of the supposed foundations for differences that require and provide strategies of "othering" that continue to pose obstacles to progress in Christian-Jewish relations.

Uruguay’s Stance on the Palestinian Problem at the United Nations and the Creation of the State of Israel

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-41
Author(s):  
Fernando Adrover Orellano
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
Political Groups ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Local Jewish Community

Examination of documents on the decision-making process that accounts for the pro-Zionist stance of the Uruguayan delegation at the United Nations during the debate on Palestine reveals that the position coincides with the pro-Zionist consensus among local political groups and was influenced by the local Jewish community lobby and its contacts with government representatives. Un examen de los documentos sobre el proceso de toma de decisiones que explica la postura pro-sionista de la delegación uruguaya en las Naciones Unidas durante el debate sobre Palestina revela que la posición coincide con el consenso pro-sionista entre los grupos políticos locales y fue influenciada por el lobby de la comunidad judía local y sus contactos con representantes del gobierno.

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