This volume explores concepts of holiness in different periods of Jewish history and bodies of Jewish literature to offer preliminary reflections on their theological and philosophical import today.
This volume explores concepts of holiness in different periods of Jewish history and bodies of Jewish literature to offer preliminary reflections on their theological and philosophical import today.
Alan L. Mittleman is the Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His publications include Human Nature and Jewish Thought: Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter (Princeton University Press, 2015) and A Short History of Jewish Ethics: Conduct and Character in the Context of Covenant (Wiley Blackwell, 2011).
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* List of contributors * Introduction: Holiness and Jewish Thought * 1: Elsie R. Stern: Reclaiming the Priestly Theology * 2: Tzvi Novick: Holiness in the Rabbinic Period * 3: Martin Lockshin: Why is Holiness Not Contagious? * 4: Joseph Isaac Lifshitz: Holiness and the Land of Israel * 5: Jonathan Jacobs: Gratitude, Humility, and Holiness in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: A Rationalist Current * 6: Menachem Kellner: Maimonides on Holiness * 7: Hartley Lachter: Israel as a Holy People in Medieval Kabbalah * 8: Eitan P. Fishbane: Shabbat and Sacred Time in Later Hasidic Mysticism * 9: William Plevan: Holiness in Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber * 10: Sharon Portnoff: Holiness and the Holocaust: Emil Fackenheim and the Challenge of Historicism * Afterword: Holiness, Reason, and Romanticism
* List of contributors * Introduction: Holiness and Jewish Thought * 1: Elsie R. Stern: Reclaiming the Priestly Theology * 2: Tzvi Novick: Holiness in the Rabbinic Period * 3: Martin Lockshin: Why is Holiness Not Contagious? * 4: Joseph Isaac Lifshitz: Holiness and the Land of Israel * 5: Jonathan Jacobs: Gratitude, Humility, and Holiness in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: A Rationalist Current * 6: Menachem Kellner: Maimonides on Holiness * 7: Hartley Lachter: Israel as a Holy People in Medieval Kabbalah * 8: Eitan P. Fishbane: Shabbat and Sacred Time in Later Hasidic Mysticism * 9: William Plevan: Holiness in Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber * 10: Sharon Portnoff: Holiness and the Holocaust: Emil Fackenheim and the Challenge of Historicism * Afterword: Holiness, Reason, and Romanticism
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