The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic EthicsJonathan Schofer offers the first theoretically framed examination of rabbinic ethics in several decades. Centering on one large and influential anthology, The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan, Jonathan Schofer situates that text within a broader spectrum of rabbinic thought, while at the same time bringing rabbinic thought into dialogue with current scholarship on the self, ethics, theology, and the history of religions. |
Contents
The Text and Its Sages | 24 |
Ib The Text Instructs | 54 |
Conclusion | 65 |
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