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The Ten Commandments : how our most ancient moral text can renew modern life
- Title
- The Ten Commandments : how our most ancient moral text can renew modern life / David Hazony.
- Author
- Hazony, David.
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 288 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Journalist and philosopher David Hazony offers a new look at our most venerable moral text. Combining a fresh reading of the Old Testament's most riveting stories and ancient rabbinic legends with an exploration of what ails society today, Hazony shows that the Ten Commandments are not just a set of obscure laws but encapsulate a deeply valuable approach to life, as relevant now as it was when they first appeared more than two millennia ago. He begins with a daring claim: Although they have become a universally recognizable symbol of biblically based religion, they are not, strictly speaking, a religious text. Rather than making a statement about faith or mystical realms inaccessible to reason, they contain a coherent prescription for how to make a better world. At their core stands what Hazony calls the "spirit of redemption," which he describes as one of the two basic spiritual components of Western civilization--From publisher description.
- Alternative Title
- 10 commandments
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-273) and index.
- Contents
- Redemption -- Morality and loneliness -- Our lies destroy us -- The redemptive self -- Wisdom of the heart -- The meaning of life -- Love and ecstasy -- Making room for others -- Our communities, ourselves -- Peace.
- Call Number
- *PNK 12-892
- ISBN
- 9781416562351
- 1416562354
- 9781416562405
- 1416562400
- LCCN
- 2009043129
- OCLC
- 457770069
- Author
- Hazony, David.
- Title
- The Ten Commandments : how our most ancient moral text can renew modern life / David Hazony.
- Imprint
- New York : Scribner, 2010.
- Edition
- 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-273) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *PNK 12-892