- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Translators’ Note
- Introduction
-
Part I The First Mirror -
1 Waking the Dead—Greece as an Ideal and an Exemplar -
2 Hellenism and Hebraism: The Two Poles of the World -
3 Israel and Greece: Reviving a Legendary Past -
4 ‘Greek Wisdom’ as Secular Knowledge and Science -
5 Japheth in the Tents of Shem: The Reception of the Classical Heritage in Modern Hebrew Culture -
6 The Moral Dimension: Commonality and Particularity -
7 Worlds without Compromise: Reconstructing the Disparities -
8 Have Jews Imagination? Jews and the Creative Arts -
Part II The Second Mirror -
9 The Nature of the Hellenistic Mirror -
10 Judaism and Hellenism in Palestine and Alexandria: Two Models of a National and Cultural Encounter -
11 Homeric Books and Hellenistic Culture in the World of the Sages -
Part III Athens in Jerusalem -
12 Back to History: The Secularization of the Ancient Jewish Past -
13 The Children of Japheth (Aryans) and the Children of Shem (Semites): Race and Innate Nationalism -
14 The People and its Land: Country, Landscape, and Culture -
15 A ‘Polis’ in Jerusalem: The Jewish State -
16 The New Jewish Culture: Ideal and Reality - Conclusion: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
Conclusion: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
- Chapter:
- (p.473) Conclusion: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
- Source:
- Athens in Jerusalem
- Author(s):
Yaacov Shavit
, Chaya Naor, Niki Werner- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This concluding chapter explores the complex reality of the modern Jerusalem as it has been irrevocably influenced by Athens. The fact that Athens is an integral and essential part of the modern Jerusalem has already been established. Thus, the chapter now considers that, given Athens and Jerusalem are two antipodal entities, can these hostile and contradicting spiritual and cultural entities exist together? It reveals that modern Judaism, namely secular Judaism, inspired by Athens and shaped by the heritage of classical antiquity (and Western values), is a different type of Judaism from the Judaism of previous generations; therefore, the conflict between Athens and Jerusalem in Jerusalem was and is inevitable. This conflict is the core of the struggle over the identity and content of modern Judaism in Palestine.
Keywords: Athens, Jerusalem, Palestine, modern Judaism, secular Judaism, Western values, classical antiquity, modern Jerusalem
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Translators’ Note
- Introduction
-
Part I The First Mirror -
1 Waking the Dead—Greece as an Ideal and an Exemplar -
2 Hellenism and Hebraism: The Two Poles of the World -
3 Israel and Greece: Reviving a Legendary Past -
4 ‘Greek Wisdom’ as Secular Knowledge and Science -
5 Japheth in the Tents of Shem: The Reception of the Classical Heritage in Modern Hebrew Culture -
6 The Moral Dimension: Commonality and Particularity -
7 Worlds without Compromise: Reconstructing the Disparities -
8 Have Jews Imagination? Jews and the Creative Arts -
Part II The Second Mirror -
9 The Nature of the Hellenistic Mirror -
10 Judaism and Hellenism in Palestine and Alexandria: Two Models of a National and Cultural Encounter -
11 Homeric Books and Hellenistic Culture in the World of the Sages -
Part III Athens in Jerusalem -
12 Back to History: The Secularization of the Ancient Jewish Past -
13 The Children of Japheth (Aryans) and the Children of Shem (Semites): Race and Innate Nationalism -
14 The People and its Land: Country, Landscape, and Culture -
15 A ‘Polis’ in Jerusalem: The Jewish State -
16 The New Jewish Culture: Ideal and Reality - Conclusion: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
- Bibliography
- Index
