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Product Identifiers
PublisherSyracuse University Press
ISBN-100815605897
ISBN-139780815605898
eBay Product ID (ePID)676637
Product Key Features
Original LanguageGerman
Book TitleGOG and Magog : a Novel
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicReligious, Historical, Jewish
Publication Year1999
GenreFiction
AuthorMartin Buber
Book SeriesMartin Buber Library
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN98-051564
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsA book that saw its beginning in one world conflict, was written under the impact of another, and deals with a great spiritual struggle to realize the meaning of still another, a century and a half earlier, is surely a book that speaks to the condition of our time., It is . . . one of the crowning achievements of Buber's lifetime of significant work, a profound literary work which may properly be compared to Dostoievsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov in its dialectic between types of religious figures and in the depths of its insights into the problem of evil and of human existence.
Dewey Decimal833/.912
SynopsisPreviously published by Atheneum in 1981, this is a religious chronicle in fictional form, with Hasidic rabbis as its heroes. Buber unfolds the inner world of messianic longing and expectation that characterized Judaism then and continues to characterize it to the present day. In the MARTIN BUBER LIBRARY series., Gog and Magog is a religious chronicle in fictional form. Its heroes are Hasidic rapbis. Its background is the Napoleonic wars at the end of the eighteenth century. Its scene is laid in Poland and Hungary. Although magic and superstition play their parts in the story, it is really Buber's effort to articulate two approaches to the question: May men use evil to accomplish good? May men take power in their own hands--even to do the work of redemption--without submitting first to the will of God? More particularly Buber unfolds the inner world of messianic longing and expectation that characterized Judaism then and continues to characterize it to the present day.
LC Classification NumberPJ5053.B77G613 1999
