Alan L Mittleman

Holiness in Jewish Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198796497
• ISBN-10: 0198796498
• Artikelnr.: 48955665

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

* 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