
Happiness in Premodern Judaism
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Thinking Happiness: Greek and Hellenistic Views
- 2. Ashrei: Torah, Wisdom, and Living Rightly in Ancient Judaism
- 3. The Happy Life of Torah in Rabbinic Judaism
- 4. Happiness and the Cultivation of Character in Islam
- 5. Perfectly Happy: Maimonides' Conception of Happiness
- 6. The Maimonidean Controversies: Debating the Meaning of Happiness
- 7. The Kabbalistic Prescription for Happiness
- 8. Intellectual Perfection and Jewish-Christian Rivalry
- 9. Religious Perfection and the Interplay of Philosophy and Kabbalah
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
- Blank Page
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