Charity in Rabbinic Judaism: Atonement, Rewards, and Righteousness
Author:   Alyssa M. Gray
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138599963


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   31 May 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Charity in Rabbinic Judaism: Atonement, Rewards, and Righteousness


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Author:   Alyssa M. Gray
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138599963


ISBN 10:   1138599964
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   31 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Introduction: rabbis, charity, tzedaqah 2. God as the true recipient of tzedaqah 3. Redemptive almsgiving and charity’s rewards in the land of Israel 4. Redemptive almsgiving and charity’s rewards in the Talmud Bavli 5. Tzedaqah and teshuvah: partially overlapping magisteria 6. Charity and beyond: the Talmud Bavli’s limitations on a divine role in human affairs 7. Select post-Talmudic developments 8. Conclusion: righteous before God

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Alyssa M. Gray is the Emily S. and Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman Chair in Rabbinics and Professor of Codes and Responsa Literature at HUC-JIR in New York. She is the author of A Talmud in Exile: The Influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli Avodah Zarah (2005) and numerous shorter studies on wealth, poverty, and charity in rabbinic literature and on the formation of the Babylonian Talmud.

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