Love, Accusative and Dative
Reflections on Leviticus 19:18

Paper $5.95    |    978-0-8156-3143-9    |    2007

Description
In this probing and original lecture, Paul Mendes-Flohr examines classical and modern Jewish commentaries on the biblical commandment, "Love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord" (Leviticus 19:18). The lecture concludes by addressing a question that vexed commentators throughout the generations: Can love be commanded?

B. G. Rudolph Lecture in Judaic Studies
The annual B. G. Rudolph Lecture in Judaic Studies was inaugurated by B. G. Rudolph in 1962. Since then, his son Jay Rudolph, along with others, have helped to build the Judaic Studies Program at Syracuse University.

Author
Paul Mendes-Flohr teaches modern Jewish thought at The University of Chicago Divinity School and is the director of the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His most recent book is Jüdische Identität: Die zwei Seelen der deutschen Juden.

6 x 9, 32 pages