O JERUSALEM

<p>This century has bequeathed to the Jewish people a series of events with horrific and startling consequences including the Holocaust the birth of the state of Israel and its development into a powerful military state. Ellis argues that the history and identity of the Jewish people are now being decisively transformed and reinterpreted. What is their destiny in the next century?<p></p>Ellis asks Are there religious ideals intellectual concepts and political movements . . . that will help Jews confront the history we are creating . . . ? In this profound and provocative work he finds the answers in the covenant symbolized by Jerusalem. Ellis offers a renewed theology of the covenant and its justice dimensions its present exile and its future in revolutionary forgiveness.</p>