The Third Pillar: Essays in Judaic Studies

by Geoffrey H. Hartman

Why should we be excluded from the history and literature of Judaism because the world of our fathers and mothers became a secularized one, Geoffrey Hartman asks, or because religious literacy, whatever our faith or community affiliation, has gone into relative decline? And why, he asks, do those who have no trouble finding pleasure and intellectual profit in the Greek and Roman classics or in the literary and artistic productions of two millennia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243161
• ISBN13: 9780812243161
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"