The theology of the Chinese Jews, 1000-1850 / Jordan Paper ; postscript by Rabbi Anson Laytner.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, Chinese Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2012]Copyright date: �2012Description: 1 online resource (170 pages)Content type:- text
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- Jews -- China -- History
- Jews -- China -- Kaifeng Shi -- History
- Judaism -- China -- Doctrines
- China -- Ethnic relations -- History
- Juifs -- Chine -- Histoire
- Juifs -- Chine -- Kaifeng (Shi) -- Histoire
- Juda�isme -- Chine -- Doctrines
- Chine -- Relations interethniques -- Histoire
- HISTORY -- Asia -- China
- Ethnic relations
- Jews
- Judaism -- Doctrines
- China
- China -- Kaifeng Shi
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Co-published by: University of Victoria, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-170).
Includes an appendix of Chinese logographs for terms and translations in chapter 6.
1 Introduction: The Four Questions -- 2 From Whence They Came to Where They Went -- 3 Life in China: Tenth to Nineteenth Centuries -- 4 Brief History of Buddhism and the Abrahamic Traditions in China -- 5 The Sinification of Judaism -- 6 A Speculative Theology of the Chinese Jews -- Epilogue.
Traces the history of Jews in China and explores how their theology's focus on love, rather than on the fear of a non-anthropomorphic God, may speak to contemporary liberal Jews.
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