Table of Contents

List of contributors
Alan L. Mittleman: Introduction: Holiness and Jewish Thought
1: Elsie R. Stern: Reclaiming the Priestly Theology
2: Tzvi Novick: Holiness in the Rabbinic Period
3: Martin Lockshin: Why is Holiness Not Contagious?
4: Joseph Isaac Lifshitz: Holiness and the Land of Israel
5: Jonathan Jacobs: Gratitude, Humility, and Holiness in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: A Rationalist Current
6: Menachem Kellner: Maimonides on Holiness
7: Hartley Lachter: Israel as a Holy People in Medieval Kabbalah
8: Eitan P. Fishbane: Shabbat and Sacred Time in Later Hasidic Mysticism
9: William Plevan: Holiness in Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber
10: Sharon Portnoff: Holiness and the Holocaust: Emil Fackenheim and the Challenge of Historicism
Lenn E. Goodman: Afterword: Holiness, Reason, and Romanticism

About the Author

Alan L. Mittleman is the Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His publications include Human Nature and Jewish Thought: Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter (Princeton University Press, 2015) and A Short History of Jewish Ethics: Conduct and Character in the Context of Covenant (Wiley Blackwell, 2011).

Reviews

The ten essays in Holiness in Jewish Thought range widely across the centuries and provide a rich stimulus for thought on an important topic...Specialist Christian readers will find it a useful volume for academic investigation...
*Tom Wilson, St. Philip's Centre, Anvil*

Holiness in Jewish Thought is an excellent resource for someone doing interfaith studies, comparative religious studies, or anyone who is interested in deepening their knowledge of holiness in Judaism.
*Taras Dzyubanskyy, Reading Religion*