TY - BOOK TI - Converts, heretics, and lepers: Maimonides and the outsider AU - Diamond, James A. CY - Notre Dame, Ind PB - University of Notre Dame Press PY - 2007 LA - English SN - 0268025924 SN - 9780268025922 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and indexes N1 - Formerly CIP N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0726/2007033426.html UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29296 ER -