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The making of a sage : a study in rabbinic ethics / Jonathan Wyn Schofer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schofer, Jonathan Wyn.
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Ethics in rabbinical literature.
- Jewish ethics.
- Talmud. Minor tractates. Avot de-Rabbi Nathan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Talmud.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 310 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jonathan Schofer offers the first theoretically framed examination of rabbinic ethics in several decades. Centering on one large and influential anthology, The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan, Jonathan Schofer situates that text within a broader spectrum of rabbinic thought, while at the same time bringing rabbinic thought into dialogue with current scholarship on the self, ethics, theology, and the history of religions.Notable Selection, Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Association for Jewish Studies
- Contents:
- R. Nathan and its contexts
- The text instructs
- Concepts and tropes
- The text and its sages : conclusion
- Torah and transgressive tendencies
- The heart and its formation
- Rabbinic tradition : conclusion
- Divine reward and punishment
- Motivation and emotion
- Rabbinic theology : conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-294) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612269653
- 9781282269651
- 1282269658
- 9780299204631
- 0299204634
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