Poverty, Charity and the Image of the Poor in Rabbinic Texts from the Land of Israel
<p>This study examines how rabbinic texts from the land of Israel explain and respond to poverty. Through this investigation, I also analyze images of the poor in this literature, asking whether the rabbis considered poor persons to be full participants in communal religious life. Within the c...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5020 |