Confronting omnicide : Jewish reflections on weapons of mass destruction /

Confronting omnicide : Jewish reflections on weapons of mass destruction / edited by Daniel Landes. - Northvale, New Jersey : J. Aronson, (c)1991. - xi, 293 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographies and index.

A vow of death / The dialectics of power : reflections in the light of the Holocaust / Cataclysm, survival, and regeneration in the Hebrew Bible / Torah and weapons of mass destruction : a view from Israel / A Jewish understanding of war and its limits / Nuclear war and the prohibition of wanton destruction / The human situation and the nuclear threat / A theology of fear : the search for a liberal Jewish paradigm / Bishops, rabbis, and bombs / Confronting omnicide / Nuclear war through the prism of Jewish law : the nature of man and war / Nuclear deterrence and nuclear war / From genocide to omnicide : the Jewish imperative to save the earth / Morality and nuclear weapons / Final solution -- universal? / Reuven Kimelman -- Daniel Landes -- Irving Greenberg -- Jon D. Levenson -- Pincha H. Peli -- Reuven Kimelman -- David Novak -- Maurice Friedman -- David Ellenson -- Elliot N. Dorff -- Immanuel Jakobovits -- J. David Bleich -- Walter S. Wurzburger -- Louis Ren�e Beres -- Edward Teller -- Eliezer Berkovits.

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1939-1945


Nuclear warfare--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Nuclear warfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
War--Biblical teaching.
War (Jewish law)
Weapons of mass destruction--Moral and ethical aspects.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

BM538 / .C664 1991