Jesus in Modern Jewish Culture
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Adi Nes – Contemporary depiction of the Last Supper
Jesus in Modern Jewish Culture
In 2003, the Israel Museum hosted a very unusual exhibition––“Revelation: Representations of Christ in Photography.” A lengthy essay could be devoted merely to the meaning of the showing of such exhibition in Israel’s National Museum. Suffice it to say here that in the Forward to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, the following explanation is given: “The fact that many photographers today continue to create works using Christian religious imagery suggests that both artists and public remain keenly interested in this genre.” While one can wonder about the truth of this statement, the curators of the exhibition obviously considered that Israeli artists and public alike are keenly interested in Christian religious imagery.מחיר:0.00 ש"חAmos Bar – Jesus as an Expression of Defiance
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People who study modern Hebrew literature know that integrating New Testament motifs into poetry, prose, and other forms of art sometimes represents an act of defiance against what an author perceives to be wrong. Such is the case of Amos Bar’s poem “Jesus.” Bar (31)––a journalist who writes occasional poetry––belongs to a generation torn asunder from its Jewish identity which is now frenetically trying to understand what being a Jew means. This identity crisis has led to an unparalleled interest in spirituality, regardless of its origin. The explosion of New Age teaching and practices within contemporary Israeli society is testimony to this frantic search after the meaning of Jewish life. In this sense, Bar is a typical young Israeli who is willing to explore any venue that potentially can sooth this identity-itch.מחיר:0.00 ש"חAriel Cohen Alvero – Jesus and The Promised Land
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“Folk religion” exercises a considerable force in shaping culture. A prominent example of such influence is the South American mixture of Catholicism with animism––the belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects. Judaism has its own version of folk religion that influences the beliefs and worldviews of many people. A case in point is a popularized version of the Kabbalah ––whose inspiration the singer Madonna acknowledges. The book The Bible Code popularized another aspect of Jewish religion––that which draws inspiration from a method of interpretation called notarikon. This method can dissect a word, join two words together, join letters from different words in one sentence, or turn a word into an acronym.מחיר:0.00 ש"חBen Gurion University – Jesus Without Apology and Apologetics
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Academies––of any sort––should be committed to the pursuit of truth by means of scientific methods. In the past (and regretfully still today), many religious people considered that science is driven by a hidden agenda to demolish faith in God. This has been true for both Jews and Christians, who alike feared that new discoveries concerning history, biology, cosmology, and other scientific fields would destroy accepted religious concepts. Such an apprehension was not, indeed, completely unwarranted, for on numerous occasions religious (biblical) conceptions have been proved erroneous – as, for example, with regard to the planetary system.
מחיר:0.00 ש"חBinyamin Shvili – My beloved The Jew
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In an enchanting little book with the title Kastoria, Binyamin Shvili takes his readers on a quest to find “The Jew.” The volume represents Shvili’s own spiritual journey to a Greek town called Kastoria. Shvili, who was born in Jerusalem in 1956, is a sort of mystic. He is interested in Kabbalah, as also in Sufism and Buddhism. In this regard, he resembles myriads of other Israelis who are on a spiritual quest of their own that leads them to similar places. It is not by chance that, at any given moment, 30,000 young Israelis are traveling in the most remote places in India. Unlike many of these, however, Shvili takes “the Book of Psalms and the New Testament to find ‘The Jew.’” He goes looking for him because he has been told “that the Jew wanders without ceasing ever since the son of man carried the cross on the eve of Sabbath.”מחיר:0.00 ש"חDavid Grossman – The Virgin Birth of Samson
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David Grossman (born in Jerusalem, 1954) is considered one of Israel’s most important contemporary authors. His book Someone to Run With (2000) was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Grossman first became a household name in Israel following the publication of his book The Yellow Wind (1987)—a non-fiction volume in which he severely criticizes Israel’s conduct in the “occupied territories.”Although Grossman is not preoccupied with Jesus, this talented author evidently feels a need to express some of his inner thoughts toward Christianity and Jesus in public. Someone to Run With is a novel for teenagers, in which Grossman tells the story of the young boy Asaf’s effort to find the owner of a lost dog. This turns out to be Tamar—an elusive teenage girl caught up in the world of drugs and extortion. In his pursuit of Tamar, Asaf meets Theodora, a lonely Greek Orthodox nun who sheltered Tamar for a while in her tiny abode.מחיר:0.00 ש"חGavriel Raam – Jesus the Key to Our Unconsciousness
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For more than 2000 years, the Jesus story has refused to be removed from the bestseller list. This observation was made by Gavriel Raam, an expert on non-verbal communication and a “creative philosopher,” as he refers to himself. The title of his latest book, Rebels and Outsiders (2006), gives some hints about his fascination with such figures as Jesus, who were marginalized in their lifetimes precisely because they carried the torch of truth. Raam, heavily influenced by G.I. Gurjieff’s “the fourth way” (popularized by P.D. Ouspensky), is on a quest for a spirituality that seeks a form of true life that can only be realized by daring to step out of the comfort of the consensus.מחיר:0.00 ש"חJoseph Bau – Jesus as the Holocaust Survivor
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To a large extent, the Holocaust has caused many Jews to turn away from any kind of dialogue with the New Testament. The reason for this is clear: the calamity was conceived within a Christian culture that drew its deadly ideology from a long history of interpretation of the New Testament. Yet there are still some people who have not allowed this trauma to eclipse Jesus.מחיר:0.00 ש"חPinhas Sadeh – Life as a Parable
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Fewer books have had greater impact on so many young Israelis than Pinhas Sadeh’s Life as a Parable (1958). In the 1960’s and 1970’s, Life As a Parable spawned a cult- following among young adults that continues up until today. Sadeh (1929-1994) immigrated to Israel from Poland in 1934. With no formal education, he produced an extraordinary body of literature which he preferred to define as “theological.”Life as a Parable reads like a meditation. It is written in the form of the diary of a young man in search of the meaning of life in post-Holocaust Israel. It is surprising to find Jesus taking such a central role in this context. Sadeh was somewhat of an anti-intellectual, considering that something stifled intellectuals’ minds.מחיר:0.00 ש"חReuven Rubin – Jesus the Hope of Zionism
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Once again, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem is drawing public awareness to Israeli artists who incorporate Jesus in their work. The museum exhibiting some of the early paintings of Reuven Rubin that focus on themes from the New Testament. Rubin (1893-1975) is considered one of the most important Israeli painters of the 20th century. Some people consider his paintings to capture the true “Israeli spirit” of the 1920s and 1930s. Others see in his landscapes a depiction of the mystical and spiritual aspects of Jewish experience.
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