In search of Heschel.(Essay) From: Shofar | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 University of Nebraska Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This overview of commentary and scholarship on the life and thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel presents different aspects of Heschel reflected in the rapidly burgeoning literature on his work and personality. Eight dimensions of Heschel, prisms through which he may be perceived, are presented: Heschel as philosopher, as theologian of the deed, as mystic and hasid, as scholar, as prophet of pathos, as poet and stylist, as twentieth-century symbol, and finally in terms of the influence exerted upon and by him. The question of Heschel's attitude towards symbolism is cited as an ...

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