Happiness in Premodern Judaism - Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century.

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Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century.

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• Authors: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Associate of Hist, Rina R. Lapidus, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava (Associate Professor of History Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Associate Professor of History USA)
• Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780878204533
• ISBN: 978-0-87820-453-3
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 167 mm x 44 mm
• Weight: 1124 g
• Series: Monographs of the Hebrew Union College; Monographs of the Hebrew Union; Monographs of the Hebrew Union; Monographs of the Hebrew Union College
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries