Religious responses to political crisis / edited by Henning Graf Reventlow and Yair Hoffman.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Speaking of kingship : the institution of the monarchy in Israel - negotiations, historical memory and social drama / Frank H. Polak -- Patterns of religious response to national crisis in the Hebrew Bible, and some methodological reflections / Yair Hoffman -- A religious alternative to a political response to a severe political crisis : King Ahaz and the prophet Isaiah / Henning Graf Reventlow -- The book of Lamentations : response to destruction or ritual of rebuilding? / Edward L. Greenstein -- Reality and hopes of the Qumran community as response to crises in second temple Judaism / Bilhah Nitzan -- The image of God as father as a response to political crises in the first century B.C.E. / Elke Toenges -- Ethical and Halakhic responses following the Bar Kokhba revolt / Aharon Oppenheimer -- Political religion, political theology, and the doctrine of the two kingdoms / Christofer Frey -- How theology coped with the crisis of the first World War / Christian Link -- Religious responses to national crises in Jewish and Christian tradition / Franz-Heinrich Beyer.