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A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era : The <i>Book of the Covenant</i> of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy /
"This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republ...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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London, England :
University of Washington Press,
2014.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republished in forty editions in the last century--as well as its lasting influence on Jewish and kabbalistic thought, and its important place in Jewish society's confrontation with modernity"-- |
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| Description: | Includes index. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (192 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780295805597 |