Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface – Lebanon II
1 – Politics, Anti-Politics and Religion
2 - Irenic Scholarship
3 – Theological Disarmament
4 - Deconstruction and the Prophetic Voice
5 – Prophetic Peace
6 – The Rabbinic Voice
7 – A Prayer for Peace
8 – Peace Education
Afterword – Beating Softly
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Personal reflections on Judaism and war

About the Author

Alick Isaacs is a research fellow at the Hartman Institute's Kogod Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought and teaches at the Melton Center for Jewish Education and Rothberg School for Overseas Students, both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is co-director of the Talking Peace project sponsored by Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem.

Reviews

"A timely, highly original, and important work... What renders this book quite unique is its powerful and truly engaging autobiographical setting that lends Isaacs's argument a compelling first person urgency." Menachem Fisch, author of Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture (IUP, 1997)