An early history of compassion : emotion and imagination in Hellenistic Judaism /

"In this book, Françoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of late antiquity. Pity - sometimes also understood as compassion - is, in the literature of these communities, a spontaneous and embodied feeling, a virtue to extend to...

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Main Authors:	Mirguet, Françoise, 1980- (Author), Mirguet, Françoise, 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017 Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : 2017 New York : [2017]
Subjects:	586 B.C.-210 A.D Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D Compassion > ^A1522273 Compassion > Religious aspects > Judaism Compassion Hellenism > Influence > Judaism Hellenism > Relations > Judaism Jewish literature > History and criticism > ^A2101309 Jewish literature > History and criticism Jews > History > 586 B.C.-70 A.D > ^A1031162 Jews > History > 586 B.C.-70 A.D Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D > ^A1031453 Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D History Jewish literature Jews Judaism Judaism > Post-exilic period (Judaism) Criticism, interpretation, etc

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