Confronting vulnerability : the body and the divine in rabbinic ethics /

Confronting vulnerability : the body and the divine in rabbinic ethics /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Schofer, Jonathan Wyn.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 218 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Death in rabbinical literature.
Human body in rabbinical literature.
Ethics in rabbinical literature.
Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.
Jewish ethics.
Death in rabbinical literature.
Ethics in rabbinical literature.
Human body in rabbinical literature.
Jewish ethics.
Rabbinical literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11285550
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9780226740102
0226740102
9780226740096
0226740099
1282894781
9781282894785
9786612894787
6612894784
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:While imparting their ethical lessons, rabbinic texts often employ vivid images of death, aging, hunger, defecation, persecution, and drought. In Confronting Vulnerability, Jonathan Wyn Schofer carefully examines these texts to find out why their creators thought that human vulnerability was such a crucial tool for instructing students in the development of exemplary behavior. These rabbinic texts uphold virtues such as wisdom and compassion, propound ideal ways of responding to others in need, and describe the details of etiquette. Schofer demonstrates that these pedagogical goals were achieve.
Other form:Print version: Schofer, Jonathan Wyn. Confronting vulnerability. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010 9780226740096

Similar Items

Similar Items