The Quality of Mercy: on the Duty to Forgive in the Judaic Tradition
This article examines the view of forgiveness expounded in the classical Jewish sources. It is shown that traditional rabbinic authorities regarded the duty of one individual to forgive another as conditional upon the repentance of the offender, who has a prior duty to seek forgiveness from the pers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
1987
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1987, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-172 |
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