Bowler, "Claude Montefiore and Christianity"

Stein, Joshua B.; Bowler, Maurice Gerald

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“…172 In the postwar world, new patterns of thought and new idioms were emerging, so that the irrational-or, as Dodds called it, "the surd element in human experience"-began to exert "a fascination on the philosophers, artists, and men of letters." Bevan's friend and associate Montefi ore, who had felt certain that the tide of history was running in favor of Liberal Judaism, lived long enough to confess himself "a disillusioned, sad and embittered old man," 175 attributing the failure of his form of hellenized, syncretistic faith to the rise of Zionism and the Nazi persecutions of the Jews. 174 In this new epoch, the civic "detachment" that Bevan had regarded with such horror now found a culture and a philosophical idiom of its own, most explicitly in existentialism, but also in a wider suspicion of totalizing narratives and universal "ends."…”

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“Hellenistic Judaism” in the Works of Edwyn Robert Bevan

Shon¹

2013

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Elias Bickerman did not like teleologies, and sought, by recognizing their influence, to resist “the teleological point of view,” which he thought he detected behind documents such as Daniel, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and the works of Josephus. All are important source texts for the persecution of the Jews of Palestine under the Seleucid monarch Antiochus IV in the second centuryb.c.e. In their different ways, he believed, these accounts all arose “not out of historical, but out of theological or political considerations.” Adopting a more Rankean approach to the sources, Bickerman reached a very different interpretation of events. Focusing instead on clues regarding the infighting among factions at Jerusalem, he concluded that the Jews had, in effect, been the authors and even the agents of their own persecution. This conclusion still elicits controversy, not least because Bickerman was himself a Jew. In trying to account for this, the Israeli historian Victor Tcherikover thought he discerned the undue influence of, among others, the English scholar Edwyn Bevan—a name that to modern readers is likely to be less familiar than those of Bickerman or Tcherikover.

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“Hellenistic Judaism” in the Works of Edwyn Robert Bevan

Shon¹

2013

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Bowler, "Claude Montefiore and Christianity"

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