Converts, heretics, and lepers Maimonides and the outsider /
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
c2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.