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Holiness in Jewish Thought

Edited by Alan L. Mittleman
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 1st Feb 2018
Dimensions: w 148mm h 223mm d 21mm
Weight: 446g
ISBN-10: 0198796498
ISBN-13: 9780198796497
Barcode No: 9780198796497
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Synopsis
Holiness is a challenge for contemporary Jewish thought. The concept of holiness is crucial to religious discourse in general and to Jewish discourse in particular. "Holiness" seems to express an important feature of religious thought and of religious ways of life. Yet the concept is ill defined. This collection explores what concepts of holiness were operative in different periods of Jewish history and bodies of Jewish literature and offers preliminary reflections on their theological and philosophical import today. The contributors illumine some of the major episodes concerning holiness in the development of the Jewish tradition. They are challenged to think about the problems and potential implicit in Judaic concepts of holiness, to make them explicit, and to try to retrieve the concepts for contemporary theological and philosophical reflection. Not all of the contributors push into philosophical and theological territory, but they all provide resources for the reader to do so. Holiness is elusive but it need not be opaque. This volume makes Jewish concepts of holiness lucid, accessible, and intellectually engaging.

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The ten essays in Holiness in Jewish Thought range widely across the centuries and provide a rich stimulus for thought on an important topic...Specialist Christian readers will find it a useful volume for academic investigation... * Tom Wilson, St. Philip's Centre, Anvil * Holiness in Jewish Thought is an excellent resource for someone doing interfaith studies, comparative religious studies, or anyone who is interested in deepening their knowledge of holiness in Judaism. * Taras Dzyubanskyy, Reading Religion *