A People apart : chosenness and ritual in Jewish philosophical thought
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A People apart : chosenness and ritual in Jewish philosophical thought
(SUNY series in Jewish philosophy)
State University of New York Press, c1993
- : pbk.
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Philosphical speculations on chosenness and ritual in Judaism.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1 Choseness
Chapter 1 The Election of Israel: Outline of a Philosophical Analysis
David Novak
Chapter 2 Chosenness, Not Chauvinism: Maimonides on the Chosen people
Menachem Kellner
Response to Menachem Kellner
Norbert M. Samuelson
Reply to Norbert Samuelson
Menachem Kellner
Chapter 3 Judaism and Chosenness: On Some Controversial Aspects from Spinoza to Contemporary Jewish Thought
Ze'ev Levy
Part 2 Ritual
Chapter 4 Rational Law / Ritual Law
L. E. Goodman
Chapter 5 Mitzvah as Metaphor
Moshe Sokol
Chapter 6 Jewish Ritual and the Experience of "Rootedness"
Joshua L. Golding
Chapter 7 The Concept of Worship in Judaism
Norbert M. Samuelson
Contributors
Index
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