Intro -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Illusions of History: Man, God, and the Clash of Ideas -- PRELUDE TO ACT I: Prescription for Survival -- Chronology For Act I: From Abraham to Jesus -- ACT I. The Manifest Destiny -- SCENE 1. The Intellectual Conception -- SCENE 2. The Double Revelation -- SCENE 3. Kings Without Divine Crowns -- SCENE 4. Canon and Charisma -- SCENE 5. The Voice of the Prophets -- SCENE 6. The Call to Nationalism -- SCENE 7. At the Crossroads of Fate -- Prelude to Act II: The Road to Mishna -- ACT II. The Existentialist Dilemma -- Chronology for Act II: From Jesus to Ben-Gurion -- THE FIRST CHALLENGE. The Expanding Society of the Roman World -- THE SECOND CHALLENGE. The Interim Society of the Parthian-Sassanid World -- Birth of the Talmud -- THE THIRD CHALLENGE. The Open Society of the Islamic World -- PROGRAM NOTE. A Cross-Examination of the Crucifixion -- THE FOURTH CHALLENGE. The Closed Society of the Feudal World -- THE FIFTH CHALLENGE. The Regression of the Ghetto Age -- THE SIXTH CHALLENGE. The Sick Society of the Scientific Age -- Jews and God in the Twentieth Century -- Jews and God in Communist Russia -- Jews and God in Fascist Germany -- From Isaiah to Hitler -- The Zionist Revolution -- ACT III. The Paradox of the Diaspora -- Chronology for Act III: From Ben-Gurion to the Messiah -- Illusion and Reality -- The Diaspora Escape Hatch -- The Diaspora and the World -- The Jewish Sisyphus -- The Function of Israel -- Bibliography -- Copyright.