Holy men and hunger artists fasting and asceticism in rabbinic culture

The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. Diamond shows that rabbinic asceticism does indeed exist. This asceticism is mainly secondary, rather than primary, in that the rabbis place no value on self-denial in and of itself

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Main Author: Diamond, Eliezer
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004, 2004
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