List of contributors
Alan L. Mittleman: Introduction: Holiness and Jewish Thought
1: Elsie R. Stern: Reclaiming the Priestly Theology
2: Tzvi Novick: Holiness in the Rabbinic Period
3: Martin Lockshin: Why is Holiness Not Contagious?
4: Joseph Isaac Lifshitz: Holiness and the Land of Israel
5: Jonathan Jacobs: Gratitude, Humility, and Holiness in Medieval
Jewish Philosophy: A Rationalist Current
6: Menachem Kellner: Maimonides on Holiness
7: Hartley Lachter: Israel as a Holy People in Medieval
Kabbalah
8: Eitan P. Fishbane: Shabbat and Sacred Time in Later Hasidic
Mysticism
9: William Plevan: Holiness in Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and
Martin Buber
10: Sharon Portnoff: Holiness and the Holocaust: Emil Fackenheim
and the Challenge of Historicism
Lenn E. Goodman: Afterword: Holiness, Reason, and Romanticism
Alan L. Mittleman is the Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His publications include Human Nature and Jewish Thought: Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter (Princeton University Press, 2015) and A Short History of Jewish Ethics: Conduct and Character in the Context of Covenant (Wiley Blackwell, 2011).
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*
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