TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruderman,David B.
TI  - A best-selling Hebrew book of the modern era: the book of the covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and its remarkable legacy 
T2  - Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
SN  - 9780295805597
AV  - Q157.H79 .R833 2014eb
U1  - 500 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Seattle, Washington, London, England
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Hurwitz, Phinehas Elijah,
KW  - Sefer ha-berit (Hurwitz, Phinehas Elijah)
KW  - fast
KW  - Science
KW  - Judaism and science
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - HISTORY / Jewish
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; The Hague dialogues -- Pinḥas Elijah ben Meir Hurwitz: towards a biography of a popular author and aggressive book -- Why should a Kabbalist care about the natural world? the meaning of scientific knowledge for Pinḥas Hurwitz -- Judaism and metaphysics: Hurwitz's epistemological and historical critique of philosophy -- The moral cosmopolitanism of Pinḥas Hurwitz: some initial conjectures -- The readers of Sefer ha-brit -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Editions of Sefer ha-brit -- Appendix II: Hurwitz's instructions on printing his book from his second introduction -- Appendix III: The contents of Sefer ha-brit
N2  - "This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republished in forty editions in the last century--as well as its lasting influence on Jewish and kabbalistic thought, and its important place in Jewish society's confrontation with modernity"--
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