Abstract
Martin Buber’s essay “False Prophets” (1940) was written in Hebrew in Jerusalem two years after he fled Nazi Germany and assumed a professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The essay offers a political analysis of the dramatic confrontation between the prophets Jeremiah and Hananiah (Jeremiah 28). It speaks about the dangers of nationalism in Jeremiah’s biblical Jerusalem and in Buber’s own modern Jerusalem, eight years before the proclamation of the State of Israel.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-7 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of World Philosophies |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 10 Dec 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:Copyright © 2019 Warren Zeev Harvey.
Keywords
- Israel
- Martin Buber
- Nationalism
- True prophets
- “False prophets”