An early history of compassion : emotion and imagination in Hellenistic Judaism / Francoise Mirguet.
"In this book, Françoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of late antiquity. Pity - sometimes also understood as compassion - is, in the literature of these communities, a spontaneous and embodied feeling, a virtue to extend to...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
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2017.
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