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"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 development of 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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Author:   Alan L. Mittleman (Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Theological Seminary)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.446kg
ISBN:  

9780198796497

ISBN 10:   0198796498
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of contributors Alan L. Mittleman: Introduction: Holiness and Jewish Thought 1: Elsie R. Stern: Reclaiming the Priestly Theology 2: Tzvi Novick: Holiness in the Rabbinic Period 3: Martin Lockshin: Why is Holiness Not Contagious? 4: Joseph Isaac Lifshitz: Holiness and the Land of Israel 5: Jonathan Jacobs: Gratitude, Humility, and Holiness in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: A Rationalist Current 6: Menachem Kellner: Maimonides on Holiness 7: Hartley Lachter: Israel as a Holy People in Medieval Kabbalah 8: Eitan P. Fishbane: Shabbat and Sacred Time in Later Hasidic Mysticism 9: William Plevan: Holiness in Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber 10: Sharon Portnoff: Holiness and the Holocaust: Emil Fackenheim and the Challenge of Historicism Lenn E. Goodman: Afterword: Holiness, Reason, and Romanticism

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Holiness in Jewish Thought is an excellent resource for someone doing interfaith studies, comparative religious studies, or anyone who is interested in deepening their knowledge of holiness in Judaism. * Taras Dzyubanskyy, Reading Religion * The ten essays in Holiness in Jewish Thought range widely across the centuries and provide a rich stimulus for thought on an important topic...Specialist Christian readers will find it a useful volume for academic investigation... * Tom Wilson, St. Philip's Centre, Anvil *

The ten essays in Holiness in Jewish Thought range widely across the centuries and provide a rich stimulus for thought on an important topic...Specialist Christian readers will find it a useful volume for academic investigation... * Tom Wilson, St. Philip's Centre, Anvil * Holiness in Jewish Thought is an excellent resource for someone doing interfaith studies, comparative religious studies, or anyone who is interested in deepening their knowledge of holiness in Judaism. * Taras Dzyubanskyy, Reading Religion *

Holiness in Jewish Thought is an excellent resource for someone doing interfaith studies, comparative religious studies, or anyone who is interested in deepening their knowledge of holiness in Judaism. * Taras Dzyubanskyy, Reading Religion *

Author Information

Alan L. Mittleman is the Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His publications include Human Nature and Jewish Thought: Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter (Princeton University Press, 2015) and A Short History of Jewish Ethics: Conduct and Character in the Context of Covenant (Wiley Blackwell, 2011).

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