Sabbath: Idea, History Reality

Sabbath

Idea, History, Reality

Edited By

Gerald J. Blidstein

Contents

Shemaryahu Talmon Reckoning the Sabbath in the First and Early Second Temple Period -- From the Evening or the Morning ?	9
Joseph M. Baumgarten Some Theological Aspects of Second Temple Shabbat Practice	35
Michael Wyschogrod On the Christian Critique of the Jewish Sabbath	43
Moshe Idel Sabbath: On Concepts of Time in Jewish Mysticism	57
Arthur Green Some Aspects of Qabbalat Shabbat	95
Michael Fishbane Transcendental Consciousness and Stillness in the Mystical Theology of R. Yehuda AriehLeib of Gur	119
Elliott Horowitz Sabbath Delights: Toward a Social History	131