Converts, heretics, and lepers Maimonides and the outsider /

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Hoofdauteur: Diamond, James Arthur
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • The convert (ger): metaphor of Jewishness
  • The leper: illness as contemplative metaphor
  • Elisha ben Abuyah and the hubris of the heretic
  • The king: the ethics of imperial humility
  • The sage/philosopher: a solitude of universalism
  • God, the supreme outsider: indwelling (shekhinah) as metaphor for outdwelling
  • Deconstructing God's indwelling: the challenge to Halevi
  • Sabbath: the temporal outsider.