Diamond, James Arthur.

Converts, heretics, and lepers Maimonides and the outsider / [electronic resource] : James A. Diamond. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007. - xiii, 343 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and indexes.

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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2013.
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Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.


Other (Philosophy)
God (Judaism)


Electronic books.

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