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Seven Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List

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Description for Seven Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List Paperback. There is no society without right and wrong. There is no society without sin. But every culture has its own favorite list of trespasses. Perhaps the most influential of these was drawn up by the Church in late antiquity: the Seven Deadly Sins. This title guides the reader through Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman thoughts on sin. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HRLM; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 227.

There is no society without right and wrong. There is no society without sin. But every culture has its own favorite list of trespasses. Perhaps the most influential of these was drawn up by the Church in late antiquity: the Seven Deadly Sins. Pride, sloth, gluttony, envy, anger, lust, and greed are not forbidden acts but the passions that lead us into temptation. Aviad Kleinberg, one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Israel, examines the arts of sinning and of finger pointing. What is wrong with a little sloth? Where would haute cuisine be without gluttony? Where would we ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674057326
SKU
V9780674057326
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About Aviad Kleinberg
Aviad Kleinberg is Professor of History at Tel Aviv University and the author of Prophets in Their Own Country: Living Saints and the Making of Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages.

Reviews for Seven Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List
The Seven Sins is a fascinating, amusing and highly readable book that offers a rethinking of our sins and passions through an examination of the Christian deadly sins—sloth, envy, lust, gluttony, greed, anger and pride
to which Kleinberg adds an eighth, self-righteousness.
Ynet
The Seven Sins is an intellectual gem that introduces the reader to a new world of ... Read more

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