Confronting Vulnerability - The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics

Zusammenfassung While imparting their ethical lessons, rabbinic texts often employ vivid images of death, aging, hunger, defecation, persecution, and drought. This book examines these texts to find out why their creators thought that human vulnerability was such a crucial tool for instructing students in the development of exemplary behavior.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Schofer Jonathan Wyn
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780226740096
• ISBN: 978-0-226-74009-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Ethics & moral philosophy, Jewish Studies, Ethics and moral philosophy, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities