Buber on God and the Perfect Man: Second Edition

by Pamela Vermes

Book Overview

Pamela Vermes has written a thought-provoking, enlightening, and moving work that reaffirms Buber's remarkable breadth of intellect and shows how he has drawn on Jewish culture and ideas to point the way to a 'life lived religiously' by both secularists and the religious. Unlike the many commentators who have relegated Buber's Judaism to a mere question of biography, she demonstrates how he drew not only on the Bible but on Targum and Midrash, as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1874774234
• ISBN13: 9781874774235
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in Ass
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.