TY - BOOK AU - Diamond,James Arthur ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Converts, heretics, and lepers: Maimonides and the outsider AV - B759.M34 D48 2007eb U1 - 296.1/81 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Notre Dame, Ind. PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - Maimonides, Moses, KW - Other (Philosophy) KW - God (Judaism) KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and indexes; The convert (ger): metaphor of Jewishness -- The leper: illness as contemplative metaphor -- Elisha ben Abuyah and the hubris of the heretic -- The king: the ethics of imperial humility -- The sage/philosopher: a solitude of universalism -- God, the supreme outsider: indwelling (shekhinah) as metaphor for outdwelling -- Deconstructing God's indwelling: the challenge to Halevi -- Sabbath: the temporal outsider; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10423339 ER -