Vanquished nation, broken spirit : the virtues of the heart in formative Judaism
From the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the Jews were a conquered nation. Neusner's book explores the attitudes to dignity and nobility in Jewish canonical writings and asks how these virtues relate to the politics of the Jews as a vanquished people.
Print Book, English, 1987
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1987
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 184 pages ; 24 cm
9780521328326, 9780521338011, 0521328322, 0521338018
14097579
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Emotion, the individual, and society: the affective aspect; 2. Vanquished nation, broken spirit; 3. The starting point; 4. Virtue for sages; 5. Virtue in the extension of the exegetical tradition of the law: the Tosefta and the Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan; 6. The virtues of the heart in the articulation of the exegetical tradition of the law: the Yerushalmi; 7. The conclusion of the exegetical tradition of the law: the Bavli; 8. The other Torah: affections in the exegetical tradition; 9. Constant affections, inconstant heart; Bibliographical essay and source list; General index; Index to Biblical and Talmudic references.
Includes indexes