Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
Subtitle: The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780295994130
Subjects: Science; Religion and science
Description: "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"--