Marc (Menahem) Hirshman. Torah for the Entire World. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1999. 189 pp. (Hebrew).
Hirshman's cautious study promises a focus upon “a universalistic stream in the Tannaitic literature and its relationship to the wisdom of the nations.” The “universalism” he hopes to identify is a modest one: the notion that the Torah of Israel is intended ab origine to be a possession of all...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2002
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AJS review
Year: 2002, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 127-128 |
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Book review
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| Summary: | Hirshman's cautious study promises a focus upon “a universalistic stream in the Tannaitic literature and its relationship to the wisdom of the nations.” The “universalism” he hopes to identify is a modest one: the notion that the Torah of Israel is intended ab origine to be a possession of all human communities (with some pointed exceptions, such as the Amalekites). |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009402280046 |