Hello We would like to introduce a new book published by Magnes press: And before Honor – Humility The ideal of humility in the moral language of the Sages By Richard S. Lewis <http://www.magnes-press.com/Authors/Richard+S.+Lewis.aspx?name=Richard+S.+Lewis> And before Honor – Humility investigates the moral-spiritual ideal of humility in rabbinic literature, a topic which has until now not been the subject of critical inquiry. Four sugyot (topics of discussion) stand at the center of the inquiry: haughtiness of spirit and lowliness of spirit, the humility of the Holy One blessed is He, humility and irascibility, and the ineluctable tension between the honor of Torah and human dignity. Shmuel Lewis presents a theoretical framework and interpretive approach that fit the unique nature of rabbinic literature and uncover a philosophical layer of thought in texts that have been considered until now merely didactic. His readings tack between close textual investigation and broad conceptual analysis in search of the mutual relations between social conceptions and world pictures. By means of comparison with parallel mutual relations in ancient Greek thought the connections between social conceptions, world pictures and moral ideals comes into view in both moral languages – the biblical-rabbinic and the Greek. For more info please press here <http://www.magnes-press.com/Book/And+before+Honor+%E2%80%93+Humility.aspx?name=And+before+Honor+%E2%80%93+Humility&code=45-131122> For sample pages please press here <http://www.magnes-press.com/NetisUtils/srvrutil_getdoc.aspx/0L3GsEJ1S/preview/preview.pdf?> Price: $ 29.70 / 89.10 ₪ eBook: $ 24.75 regards, Celestina Levant Sales and Marketing abroad Magnes Press sa...@magnespress.co.il www.magnes-press.com Tel: 972-2-6584780 Fax: 972-2-5633370
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