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Devotion and Commandment: The Faith of Abraham in the Hasidic Imagination (The Gustave a. and Mamie W. Efroymson Memorial Lectures)
Arthur Green
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Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HRJP; HRJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 525.
What was piety like before the commandments were revealed? How did Abraham live in a way that fulfilled the ideals of piety without the Torah? This question, raised in the ancient Jewish theology of Philo and central to the struggle of Paul with his own Judaism and his emerging Christian faith, was raised once again by the Hasidic masters of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century. In a series of powerful and spiritually searching sermons, the Hasidic masters reinterpret spiritually the ancient rabbis' insistence that the patriarchs lived within the Law. In centering their spiritualization of Judaism around the figure ... Read more
What was piety like before the commandments were revealed? How did Abraham live in a way that fulfilled the ideals of piety without the Torah? This question, raised in the ancient Jewish theology of Philo and central to the struggle of Paul with his own Judaism and his emerging Christian faith, was raised once again by the Hasidic masters of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century. In a series of powerful and spiritually searching sermons, the Hasidic masters reinterpret spiritually the ancient rabbis' insistence that the patriarchs lived within the Law. In centering their spiritualization of Judaism around the figure ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Hebrew Union College Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780822963943
SKU
V9780822963943
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About Arthur Green
Arthur Green is Irving Brudnick Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Hebrew College. A scholar in the field of Jewish mysticism and Hasidism, he is the author of more than a dozen books, including Tormented Master: A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, and the editor of Jewish Spirituality.
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