A Short History of Jewish Ethics

Conduct and Character in the Context of Covenant
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8942-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

A Short History of Jewish Ethics traces the development of Jewish moral concepts and ethical reflection from its Biblical roots to the present day.

- Offers an engaging and thoughtful account of Jewish ethics
- Brings together and discusses a broad range of historical sources covering two millennia of writings and conversations
- Combines current scholarship with original insights
- Written by a major internationally recognized scholar of Jewish philosophy and ethics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mittleman, Alan L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction 1

1 Ethics in the Axial Age 16

2 Some Aspects of Rabbinic Ethics 52

3 Medieval Philosophical Ethics 88

4 Medieval Rabbinic and Kabbalistic Ethics 124

5 Modern Jewish Ethics 156

Conclusion 199

Index 202

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Mittleman is Professor of Jewish Thought at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. His books include Hope in a Democratic Age (2009) and The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah (2000). Mittleman's work seeks to bring Jewish thought into a constructive conversation with ethics, political theory, and philosophy of religion.