The Love of God : : Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism / / Jon D. Levenson.
The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism-but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an emotion be commanded? How could one eve...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Jewish Ideas ;
8 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Transliteration from Hebrew
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. A Covenantal Love
- 2. Heart, Soul, and Might
- 3. The Once and Future Romance
- 4. The Consummation of the Spiritual Life
- 5. "Because He has sold Himself to us with the Torah"
- Notes
- Index of Primary Sources
- Index of Modern Authors