Ruderman, David B.2016-05-262016-05-262012Ruderman, David B. A best-selling Hebrew book of the modern era : the Book of the Covenant of Pinḥas Hurwitz and its remarkable legacy (Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2014)9780295994130http://hdl.handle.net/1773/36209This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republished in forty editions in the last century--as well as its lasting influence on Jewish and kabbalistic thought, and its important place in Jewish society's confrontation with modernity.en-USCC0 1.0 Universalhttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/Hurwitz, Phinehas Elijah, 1765-1821. Sefer ha-berit ; Judaism and scienceVideo