Martin Buber's Theopolitics

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Index

Note: MB = Martin Buber; GL = Gustav Landauer

Aaron, 138–139, 146, 149n52
Abimelech, 106–108, 112, 180
Abraham, 98, 101–103, 130–131, 138, 148n29, 180,
206n19, 300
Adorno, Theodor W., 271
Against Me! (band), 269
Agamben, Giorgio, 262–266
Ahab, 184–186
Ahad Ha’am, 28, 214–215
Ahaz, 173n64, 192–196
Akhenaten (Pharaoh), 95, 128, 130–131
Akiva (Rabbi), 236
al-Aqsa Mosque, 227–228
Albert, Michael, 267
al-Husseini, Hajj Amin, 227
al-Qassam, Sheikh Izz al-Din, 228
Althusser, Louis, 272
Amalek, 149n56
Amos, book of, 178, 182, 187–192, 202, 207n50,
208nn60, 63
Amun-Re, 95
“Anarchic Thoughts on Anarchism” (Landau-
er), 26, 39
anarcho-socialism, 241, 277
anarcho-theocracy, 49n9, 81, 204; and ancient
Israel, 86–89, 104–108, 110–114, 142, 153, 158,
170, 176, 213–214, 241; versus hereditary mon-
archy, 105–106, 176; judgeship crucial to, 113;
rebellion against, 113
“And If Not Now, When?” (Buber), 230–231, 233
Anointed, The, 84, 92, 115n10, 123–124, 146n1,
151–159 (passim), 176, 182, 293
anointed one, 84, 114, 153, 193–195
antipolitics, 1, 11, 64, 67, 72, 295
apodictic laws, 181, 206n25
“apostle of Judaism,” MB as, 37
apostleship, 259, 262, 264–265
Arabs of Palestine, 10–11; Arab Revolt (1936),
246n70, 282; Brit Shalom views on, 217, 225,
228–229; Christian Arabs, 247n99; fear of
becoming a minority, 226–229; intentions
versus results, 11; MB desire for alliance

with, 10, 216, 222–223, 232–233, 241; MB let-

ter to Gandhi regarding, 231; as refugees, 233;

rioting at al-Aqsa Mosque, 228; Ruppin and,

216, 225, 244n26, 278; Zionist employment of,

225–226; Zionist hostilities toward, 223, 235,

282, 291n166. See also Palestine

Arendt, Hannah, 9, 286n34

Aristotle, 63

Ark of the Covenant: contents of, 199; David

and, 206n38; entering Jerusalem, 104; faction-

alization regarding, 119n56; as guesthouse for

YHVH, 97; Jeremiah’s prophesy regarding,

199; Korach’s revolt, 137, 140–141; loss of, 146,

160–161, 172n33, 199; MB on, 139–140, 160,

208n60; origins of, 119n56; as response to

golden calf, 139–140. See also Sinai Covenant

Arlosoroff, Chaim, 55n106, 221, 245n63

Arnold Himmelheber (Landauer), 31

Assmann, Jan, 127–128, 130–131, 134, 147nn14, 16

Assyria, 82, 95, 190, 192–194, 208n79, 238

Aufruf zum Sozialismus (Landauer), 36

Baal-Shem, 35–36, 282

Baal worship, 96–97, 108, 118n51, 124, 143, 183–

186, 189–190, 281

Babylonian Exile, 114, 175, 179, 197, 200–202, 235

Babylonians, 94–96, 118n44, 140, 236, 249n148

Badiou, Alain, 264–266, 271–272

Bakunin, Mikhail, 21, 25, 35, 51n39, 71, 256, 269

Balaam, 120n77, 132, 136, 177

Balfour Declaration, 57n150, 222–223, 227–228,

282

Bar-Ilan, Meir, 216

Barth, Karl, 5, 37, 44, 62, 257, 258, 261–262, 268

Bau mga r t ner, Wa lter, 119n57

Bavarian Council Republic, 59n179; as “Bavar-

ian Coffeehouse Republic,” 5; declaration of,

46; Eisner’s assassination, 45; Erich Mühsam

and, 36; failure of, 19, 61; GL and, 19, 39–41,

43–44, 46–47, 74, 220–221; MB and, 40–41,

296; Toller defended by MB, 78n21

Bebel, August, 23, 50n24, 51n39