Talmud, Plato and the radiance of Glory: Arkady Kovelman

The book is a collection of essays that reveal the meaning and nature of classic Jewish texts against the backdrop of philosophy (from Plato to Derrida), poetry (from Goethe and Pushkin to Mandelstam and Pasternak) and Hellenistic Jewish exegetes (Philon of Alexandria, etc.). The author is trying to bring the Talmud closer to the reader, to make it an element of modern artistic thinking.
The book is addressed to the Russian -speaking reader with a wide interest in philosophy, history, religion and poetry.
The author of the book is Arkady Beneconovich Kovelman, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of Judaic of the Institute of Asia and Africa of Moscow State University.

Author
Kovelman Arkady Beneconovich
Editor
Kalllo Elena, Zelenina Galina Svetloyarovna
Publisher
Text, 2011
Series
Chase collection