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Holiness in Jewish Thought
Contributor(s): Mittleman, Alan L. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0198796498     ISBN-13: 9780198796497
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $123.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Judaism - History
- Religion | Judaism - Theology
- Religion | Philosophy
LCCN: 2017943293
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" L (1.05 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
Holiness is a challenge for contemporary Jewish thought. The concept of holiness is crucial to religious discourse in general and to Jewish discourse in particular. Holiness seems to express an important feature of religious thought and of religious ways of life. Yet the concept is ill
defined. This collection explores what concepts of holiness were operative in different periods of Jewish history and bodies of Jewish literature and offers preliminary reflections on their theological and philosophical import today. The contributors illumine some of the major episodes concerning
holiness in the history of the development in the Jewish tradition. They are challenged to think about the problems and potential implicit in Judaic concepts of holiness, to make them explicit, and to try to retrieve the concepts for contemporary theological and philosophical reflection. Not all of
the contributors push into philosophical and theological territory, but they all provide resources for the reader to do so. Holiness is elusive but it need not be opaque. This volume makes Jewish concepts of holiness lucid, accessible, and intellectually engaging.
 
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