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Steven Kepnes is Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion and Director of Jewish Studies at Colgate University, USA. His research and teaching focuses on Judaism, Jewish philosophy and ethics, and Western traditions in religion and philosophy. He is the author of numerous publications including Jewish Liturgical Reasoning (2007) and editor of Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter: Studying the “Other”, Understanding the “Self” (with Basit Koshul, 2007).
Preface viii
Acknowledgments xii
1 You Shall Be Holy 1
Part One 27
2 Holy Blessings, Torah, People 29
3 Holy Shabbat 48
4 Holy Food and Holy Sacrifices 76
5 The Ethics of Holiness 102
6 Prophetic Holiness 124
Part Two 145
7 Ethical Monotheism 147
8 Textual Reasoning 172
9 Liturgical Reasoning 200
10 Scriptural Reasoning 219
11 High Holiness 246
Index 261