The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law
In a work that casts philosophical and theological reflections against a backdrop of personal experience, Leon Wiener Dow offers a learned discourse that elucidates the telos of Jewish law and the philosophical-theological commitments that animate it. To the reader gazing upon the halakha from the o...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Cham
Palgrave Macmillan
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | SpringerLink Bücher
Springer eBook Collection Religion and Philosophy |
| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious Studies
B Religion Philosophy B Religion B Judaism and culture B Judaism Doctrines |
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Cover Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Druckausg.: 978-3-319-68830-5 Printed edition: 9783319688305 |
| Summary: | In a work that casts philosophical and theological reflections against a backdrop of personal experience, Leon Wiener Dow offers a learned discourse that elucidates the telos of Jewish law and the philosophical-theological commitments that animate it. To the reader gazing upon the halakha from the outside, this book offers a glimpse of its central, orienting concepts. To the reader who lives amidst the rigor of halakha, this book bestows an insightful glance at the law’s orienting ethos and higher aspirations that often remain opaque 1. Beginnings -- 2. Saying, Writing, Doing -- 3. Shared Spacetime: Community -- 4. The Ineffable -- Epilogue. Parting ways |
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| ISBN: | 3319688316 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68831-2 |