Converts, heretics, and lepers : Maimonides and the outsider / James A. Diamond.
Material type: TextPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.Description: xiii, 343 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0268025924 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780268025922 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 296.1 22 D541c
- B 759 .M34 D48 2007
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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.
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