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Converts, heretics, and lepers [electronic resource] : Maimonides and the outsider / James A. Diamond.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.Description: xiii, 343 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 296.1/81 22
LOC classification:
  • B759.M34 D48 2007
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Contents:
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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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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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