Converts, heretics, and lepers: Maimonides and the outsider
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 metaph...
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Language: | English |
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Notre Dame, Ind
University of Notre Dame Press
c 2007
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In: | Year: 2007 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204
/ Religious philosophy
/ Outsider
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Further subjects: | B
Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
B Other (Philosophy) B Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204 B God (Judaism) |
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Summary: | 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 |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and indexes Formerly CIP 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 |
ISBN: | 0268025924 |