Coping with the failure of a prophecy: the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip
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Weissbrod, Lilly
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2008
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10
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The evacuation of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip is analyzed as the case of a failed prophecy, namely the collapse of the belief in the imminent Coming of the Messiah if Jews settle the Holy Land. Believers have coped with the failure in ways postulated in previous studies. But the political aspect of this prophecy, namely settling in occupied territory, provided more detailed insights into the manner in which faith in a prophecy can be sustained despite the disruption of the means for its fulfillment. Some believers lost their faith in the prophecy. But since the faithful had not seceded from Judaism, apostasy was only one marginal result of this disillusionment, which took several forms besides.
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Weissbrod, Lilly. (2008), Coping with the failure of a prophecy: the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip. Journal of Religion & Society, 10.
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University
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1522-5658