An early history of compassion : emotion and imagination in Hellenistic Judaism /
"In this book, Franc��oise 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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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017
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