Bøger af Byron L. Sherwin

The classic texts of Jewish ethical literature-works little-known to most of us-now available for personal study. This one-of-a-kind book brings Jewish ethical literature from ancient and medieval worlds straight into our twenty-first-century lives.

While Jewish tradition always emphasized the nexus between thought and action, as well as theory and practice, modern Jewish scholarship has severed that relationship, according to the author. This book draws from a vast range of classic Jewish texts in a quest for solutions to today's problems.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to Jewish mysticism, organized around five models of Jewish mystical theology and experience, including Normal Mysticism, Mystical Intimacy, Addressing God's Needs, Drawing Down Divine Grace, and Prophetic Kabbalah. This work includes primary texts in translation.

Demonstrates how the wisdom of the past - found in classical texts that comprise Jewish religious tradition - can forcefully address the moral perplexities of the present. The text delineates a methodology for Jewish ethics, which the author applies to a wide range of issues.

Imagine a world where the normal human life span is 150 years, where worn-out vital organs are routinely replaced by spares, where after death you will retain consciousness for eternity in cyberspace, where nanotechnology will enable you to transform a plastic bottle into a filet mignon for you to share with your android spouse.