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While imparting their ethical lessons, rabbinic texts often employ vivid images of death, aging, hunger, defecation, persecution, and drought. This book examines these texts to find out why their creators thought that human vulnerability was such a crucial tool for instructing students in the development of exemplary behavior.

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"Engaging, clear, and fun to read, Confronting Vulnerability is an exciting book that goes well beyond its specialist contribution. Because it engages with issues of fundamental human importance - how we confront our bodily nature, its weaknesses and its aging - it has something to offer to anyone who is interested in those questions. Furthermore, Schofer is an articulate and careful scholar with interesting observations about how to do comparative ethics." - Martha C. Nussbaum"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 12/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226740096, 978-0226740096
      ISBN10: 0226740099
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      Book Synopsis
      While imparting their ethical lessons, rabbinic texts often employ vivid images of death, aging, hunger, defecation, persecution, and drought. This book examines these texts to find out why their creators thought that human vulnerability was such a crucial tool for instructing students in the development of exemplary behavior.

      Trade Review
      "Engaging, clear, and fun to read, Confronting Vulnerability is an exciting book that goes well beyond its specialist contribution. Because it engages with issues of fundamental human importance - how we confront our bodily nature, its weaknesses and its aging - it has something to offer to anyone who is interested in those questions. Furthermore, Schofer is an articulate and careful scholar with interesting observations about how to do comparative ethics." - Martha C. Nussbaum"

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