Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics - Hardcover

Schofer, Jonathan Wyn

 
9780226740096: Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226740099 ISBN 13: 9780226740096
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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 achieved through reminders that one&;s time on earth is limited and that God is the ultimate master of the world. Consciousness of death and of divine accounting guide students to live better lives in the present. Schofer&;s analysis teaches us much about rabbinic pedagogy in late antiquity and also provides inspiration for students of contemporary ethics. Despite their cultural distance, these rabbinic texts challenge us to develop theories and practices that properly address our frailties rather than denying them.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jonathan Wyn Schofer is associate professor of comparative ethics at Harvard Divinity School and the author of The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226740099
ISBN 13 
9780226740096
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
218
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