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Author Diamond, James Arthur.

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

Imprint Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.

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Description xiii, 343 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and indexes.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.
Other (Philosophy)
God (Judaism)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780268025922 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0268025924 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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