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Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880 - 2000 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
Yaakov Ariel
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Paperback. A history of the Protestant evangelization of Jews in America from 1880 to 2000. Based on research in missionary archives as well as Jewish writings, it analyzes the theology and activities of both the missions and the converts, and describes the reactions of the Jewish community. Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HRAX; HRCX7; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day. Based on unprecedented research in missionary archives as well as Jewish writings, the book analyzes the theology and activities of both the missions and the converts and describes the reactions of the Jewish community, which in turn helped to shape the evangelical activity directed toward it. Ariel delineates three successive waves of evangelism, the first directed toward poor Jewish immigrants, the second toward American-born Jews trying to assimilate, and the third toward Jewish baby boomers influenced by the counterculture ... Read more
With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day. Based on unprecedented research in missionary archives as well as Jewish writings, the book analyzes the theology and activities of both the missions and the converts and describes the reactions of the Jewish community, which in turn helped to shape the evangelical activity directed toward it. Ariel delineates three successive waves of evangelism, the first directed toward poor Jewish immigrants, the second toward American-born Jews trying to assimilate, and the third toward Jewish baby boomers influenced by the counterculture ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807848807
SKU
V9780807848807
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About Yaakov Ariel
Yaakov Ariel is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of On Behalf of Israel: American Fundamentalist Attitudes towards Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865-1945.
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