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A best-selling Hebrew book of the modern era : the book of the covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and its remarkable legacy / David B. Ruderman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studiesPublisher: Seattle, Washington ; London, England : University of Washington Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780295805597
  • 0295805595
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Best-selling Hebrew book of the modern era : the book of the covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and its remarkable legacy.DDC classification:
  • 500 23
LOC classification:
  • Q157.H79 .R833 2014eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The Hague dialogues -- Pinḥas Elijah ben Meir Hurwitz: towards a biography of a popular author and aggressive book -- Why should a Kabbalist care about the natural world? the meaning of scientific knowledge for Pinḥas Hurwitz -- Judaism and metaphysics: Hurwitz's epistemological and historical critique of philosophy -- The moral cosmopolitanism of Pinḥas Hurwitz: some initial conjectures -- The readers of Sefer ha-brit -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Editions of Sefer ha-brit -- Appendix II: Hurwitz's instructions on printing his book from his second introduction -- Appendix III: The contents of Sefer ha-brit.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Hague dialogues -- Pinḥas Elijah ben Meir Hurwitz: towards a biography of a popular author and aggressive book -- Why should a Kabbalist care about the natural world? the meaning of scientific knowledge for Pinḥas Hurwitz -- Judaism and metaphysics: Hurwitz's epistemological and historical critique of philosophy -- The moral cosmopolitanism of Pinḥas Hurwitz: some initial conjectures -- The readers of Sefer ha-brit -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Editions of Sefer ha-brit -- Appendix II: Hurwitz's instructions on printing his book from his second introduction -- Appendix III: The contents of Sefer ha-brit.

"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"-- Provided by publisher

English.