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Converts, heretics, and lepers : Maimonides and the outsider / James A. Diamond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diamond, James Arthur.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Other (Philosophy).
- God (Judaism).
- Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.
- Maimonides, Moses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.
- Summary:
- Diamond's alternative reading of central topics in Maimonides suggests that literary appreciation is a key to deciphering Maimonides' writings in particular and Jewish exegetical texts in general.
- Contents:
- The convert (ger): metaphor of Jewishness
- The leper: illness as contemplative metaphor
- Elisha ben Abuyah and the hubris of the heretic
- The king: the ethics of imperial humility
- The sage/philosopher: a solitude of universalism
- God, the supreme outsider: indwelling (shekhinah) as metaphor for outdwelling
- Deconstructing God's indwelling: the challenge to Halevi
- Sabbath: the temporal outsider.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780268077662
- 0268077665
- OCLC:
- 654741049
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