TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diamond,James Arthur
TI  - Converts, heretics, and lepers: Maimonides and the outsider 
SN  - 0268025924 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - B 759 .M34 D48 2007
U1  - 296.1 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Notre Dame, Ind.
PB  - University of Notre Dame Press
KW  - Maimonides, Moses,
KW  - God (Judaism)
KW  - Other (Philosophy)
N1  - 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
ER  -