Böcker av Jonathan Wyn Schofer

Jonathan Schofer offers a theoretically framed examination of rabbinic ethics. He situates ""The Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan"", within a spectrum of rabbinic thought, while bringing rabbinic thought into dialogue with current scholarship on the self, ethics, theology, and the history of religions.

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.