Converts, heretics, and lepers Maimonides and the outsider / James A. Diamond.

Author/creator Diamond, James Arthur
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNotre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press,
Descriptionxiii, 343 p. ; 23 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and indexes.
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LCCN 2007033426
ISBN9780268025922 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0268025924 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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