Order and History, Volume 1 (Cw14)

Israel and Revelation Volume 14

By: Eric Voegelin, Maurice P. Hogan (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 November 2001

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Eric Voegelin's Israel and Revelation is the opening volume in his monumental Order and History, which traces the history of order in human society. This volume examines the ancient near eastern civilizations as a backdrop to a discussion of the historical locus of order in Israel. The drama of Israel mirrors the problems associated with the tension of existence as Israel attempted to reconcile the claims of transcendent order with those of pragmatic existence and so becomes paradigmatic.

According to Voegelin, what happened in Israel was a decisive step, not only in the history of Israel, but also in the human attempt to achieve order in society. The uniqueness of Israel is the fact that it was the first to create history as a form of life, that is, the recognition by human beings of their existence under a world-transcendent God, and the evaluation of their actions as conforming to or defecting from the divine will. In the course of its history, Israel learns that redemption comes from a source beyond itself.

Voegelin develops rich insights into the Old Testament by reading the text as part of the universal drama of being. His philosophy of symbolic forms has immense implications for the treatment of the biblical narrative as a symbolism that articulates the experiences of a people's order. The author initiates us into attunement with all the partners in the community of being: God and humans, work and society. This may well be his most significant contribution to political thought: "the experience of divine being as world transcendent is inseparable from an understanding of man as human".

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History Asian History Middle Eastern History Earliest Times to Present Day Ancient History to the Year 500 Politics & Government Political Science & Theory Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Social Theory

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Editor's Introduction	p. 1
Preface	p. 19
Acknowledgments	p. 25
Introduction: The Symbolization of Order	p. 39
The Cosmological Order of the Ancient Near East
Mesopotamia	p. 55
The Achaemenian Empire	p. 85
Egypt	p. 91
The Historical Order of Israel
Israel and History	p. 157
The Emergence of Meaning	p. 176
The Historiographic Work	p. 188
History and the Trail of Symbols
From Clan Society to Kingship	p. 233
The Struggle for Empire	p. 265
The Mundane Climax	p. 303
The End of Israel's Worldly Existence	p. 361
Moses and the Prophets
The Deuteronomic Torah	p. 405
Moses	p. 431
The Prophets	p. 481
Index of Biblical References	p. 571
Index of Subjects and Names	p. 577
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