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Hasidism incarnate : Hasidism, Christianity, and the construction of modern Judaism /

Hasidism Incarnate contends that much of modern Judaism in the West developed in reaction to Christianity and in defense of Judaism as a unique tradition. Ironically enough, this occurred even as modern Judaism increasingly dovetailed with Christianity with regard to its ethos, aesthetics, and attit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Magid, Shaul, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Colección:Encountering traditions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : incarnation and incarnational thinking
  • Divinization and incarnational thinking in Hasidism: an overview
  • Charisma speaking: uniqueness, incarnation, and sacred language (lashon ha-kodesh) in Nahman of Bratslav's self-fashioning
  • Jewish ethics through a Hasidic lens: incarnation, the law, and the universal
  • Malkhut as kenosis: malkhut and the zaddik in Yaʻakov Koppel Lifshitz of Mezritch's Shaʻarei Gan Eden
  • "Brother where art thou?": reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev
  • Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the specter of Hasidism.