audiobook The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation (Problems in European Civilization (Wadsworth)) by Donald Niewyk in History

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Redemption and Resistance brings together an eminent cast of contributors to provide a state-of-the-art discussion of Messianism as a topic of political and religious commitment and controversy. By surveying this motif over nearly a thousand years with the help of a focused historical and political searchlight; this volume is sure to break fresh ground. It will serve as an attractive contribution to the history of ancient Judaism and Christianity; of the complex and often problematic relationship between them; and of the conflicting loyalties their hopes for redemption created vis-à-vis a public order that was at first pagan and later Christian. Although each chapter is designed to stand on its own as an introduction to the topic at hand; the overall argument unfolds a coherent history. The first two parts; on pre-Christian Jewish and primitive Christian Messianism; set the stage by identifying two entities that in Part III are then addressed in the development of their explicit relationship in a Graeco-Roman world marked by violent persecution of Jewish and Christian hopes and loyalties. The story is then explored beyond the Constantinian turn and its abortive reversal under Julian; to the Christian Empire up to the rise of Islam.