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The boy on the door on the ox : an unusual spiritual journey through the strangest Jewish texts / Martin Samuel Cohen.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM506.T73 C64 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Martin Samuel, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mishnah. Tohorot (Order)--Meditations.
- Mishnah.
- Mishnah. Tohorot (Order).
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Genre:
- Meditations.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 314 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Aviv Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Principled wondering : the boy at the edge of the cemetery
- Productive ambiguity : the woman with a mouthful of coins
- Playful profundity : teamsters horsing around at river's edge
- Heroic reasoning : the earless leper
- Spiritual audacity : the boy on the door on the ox
- Persistent participation : the dexterous ape valet
- Unintentional involvement : a scullery maid bent over her oven
- Displaced contamination : a zav hanging in the balance
- Educated guesswork : three women/(almost) infinite possibilities
- Lingering evidence : an old man holding a huge ball of dough
- Diffusive contagion : a naked man and his bedroom window
- Heritable paradise : the mishnah's very last lesson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780916219406
- 0916219402
- OCLC:
- 221148878
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