Happiness in premodern Judaism : virtue, knowledge, and well-being /
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| Author / Creator: | Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, 1950- |
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| Imprint: | Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press, c2003. |
| Description: | xi, 596 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs of the Hebrew Union College ; no. 29 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5001477 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Thinking Happiness: Greek and Hellenistic Views
- 2. Ashrei: Torah, Wisdom, and Living Rightly in Ancient Judaism
- 3. The Happy Life of Torah in Rabbinic Judaism
- 4. Happiness and the Cultivation of Character in Islam
- 5. Perfectly Happy: Maimonides' Conception of Happiness
- 6. The Maimonidean Controversies: Debating the Meaning of Happiness
- 7. The Kabbalistic Prescription for Happiness
- 8. Intellectual Perfection and Jewish-Christian Rivalry
- 9. Religious Perfection and the Interplay of Philosophy and Kabbalah.
