Heavenly Torah: As Refracted Through the Generations
- ISBN-10
- 0826408028
- ISBN-13
- 9780826408020
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 814
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-01-01
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- Author
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Description
his most ambitious scholarly achievement, his three-volume study of Rabbinic Judaism, is only now appearing in English.
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