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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