Devotion and Commandment: The Faith of Abraham in the Hasidic Imagination

by Arthur Green

Book Overview

What was piety like before the commandments were revealed? How did Abraham live in a way that fulfilled the ideals of piety without the Torah? This question, raised in the ancient Jewish theology of Philo and central to the struggle of Paul with his own Judaism and his emerging Christian faith, was raised once again by the Hasidic masters of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century. In a series of powerful and spiritually searching sermons, the Hasidic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822963949
• ISBN13: 9780822963943
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"