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Author:   Steven Kepnes (Colgate University, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780470659601

ISBN 10:   0470659602
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   14 December 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface viii Acknowledgments xii 1 You Shall Be Holy 1 Part One 27 2 Holy Blessings, Torah, People 29 3 Holy Shabbat 48 4 Holy Food and Holy Sacrifices 76 5 The Ethics of Holiness 102 6 Prophetic Holiness 124 Part Two 145 7 Ethical Monotheism 147 8 Textual Reasoning 172 9 Liturgical Reasoning 200 10 Scriptural Reasoning 219 11 High Holiness 246 Index 261

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<p> Summing Up: Recommended. Professionals/practitioners;theologians. (Choice, 1 August 2013)

Summing Up: Recommended. Professionals/practitioners; theologians. (Choice, 1 August 2013) His presentation of Maimonides and Hermann Cohen is noteworthy for being succinct but fair.......his discussion of liturgical reasoning is a must-read for any student wishing to understand Jewish prayer. (Religious Studies Review 2016) ?A signally important book that argues for the intrinsically hermeneutical character of Jewish theology [from] one of the founders of the contemporary Jewish theological circle of ?textual reasoning.? This work of contemporary Jewish theology provides real instruction to the hermeneutical tasks of Christian and Islamic theology as well. A major work.??David Tracy, University of Chicago

Summing Up: Recommended. Professionals/practitioners;theologians. (Choice, 1 August 2013)

Summing Up: Recommended. Professionals/practitioners; theologians. ( Choice , 1 August 2013)

Author Information

Steven Kepnes is Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion and Director of Jewish Studies at Colgate University, USA. His research and teaching focuses on Judaism, Jewish philosophy and ethics, and Western traditions in religion and philosophy. He is the author of numerous publications including Jewish Liturgical Reasoning (2007) and editor of Studying the ‘Other’, Understanding the ‘Self’: Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter (with Basit Koshul, 2007).

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