Abstract The God of Israel’s vicarious angel: origin and necessity of a substitutive political function This paper analyzes the origins of the concept of the Angel of the Nation within the Judaic tradition. The main features and functions of the intermediary figure of the divine messe

Abstract This paper shows that while the Greek parrhesia is above all concerned with the public and political spheres, the one of the Jews integrates and directs both spheres towards a different perspective, in which the religious dimension is strongest. In this new dimension parrhesi

Abstract “Without money you shall be redeemed” (Is 52:3). Redemption in the Old Testament between theological metaphor and hybrid legal language Most Old Testament texts dealing with redemption and ransom use legal language, even when God is the redeemer, although in this

Abstract Pidion Haben, the redemption of the firstborn. Theological-political interpretations of a Mitzvah The paper deals with the mitzwà issued by Shemot/Exodus 13: 13, which imposes the consecration and the ransom of every, human and animal, first-born. This commandment, called pid

Abstract The temple and the Messiah. The theo-political eschatology of rabbinic Judaism This paper discusses aspects of eschatological and halakhic thought linked to the themes of the temple and messianic redemption developed by Rabbinical Judaism, and proposes that an understanding o

Abstract Temple, Jerusalem, city of shelter. The geography of sacred space transformed into a religion without place. When we consider the history of the temple in Jerusalem, we realise that its holiness became a spatial template for other religious institutions, allowing them, too, t