Steven Kepnes is Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion and Director of Jewish Studies at Colgate University, USA. His research and teaching focuses on Judaism, Jewish philosophy and ethics, and Western traditions in religion and philosophy. He is the author of numerous publications including Jewish Liturgical Reasoning (2007) and editor of Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter: Studying the “Other”, Understanding the “Self” (with Basit Koshul, 2007).

• Preface viiiAcknowledgments xii1 You Shall Be Holy 1Part One 272 Holy Blessings, Torah, People 293 Holy Shabbat 484 Holy Food and Holy Sacrifices 765 The Ethics of Holiness 1026 Prophetic Holiness 124Part Two 1457 Ethical Monotheism 1478 Textual Reasoning 1729 Liturgical Reasoning 20010 Scriptural Reasoning 21911 High Holiness 246Index 261

“Summing Up: Recommended. Professionals/practitioners; theologians."  (Choice, 1 August 2013)

Steven Kepnes is Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion and Director of Jewish Studies at Colgate University, USA. His research and teaching focuses on Judaism, Jewish philosophy and ethics, and Western traditions in religion and philosophy. He is the author of numerous publications including Jewish Liturgical Reasoning (2007) and editor of Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter: Studying the “Other”, Understanding the “Self” (with Basit Koshul, 2007).

• Preface viiiAcknowledgments xii1 You Shall Be Holy 1Part One 272 Holy Blessings, Torah, People 293 Holy Shabbat 484 Holy Food and Holy Sacrifices 765 The Ethics of Holiness 1026 Prophetic Holiness 124Part Two 1457 Ethical Monotheism 1478 Textual Reasoning 1729 Liturgical Reasoning 20010 Scriptural Reasoning 21911 High Holiness 246Index 261

“Summing Up: Recommended. Professionals/practitioners; theologians."  (Choice, 1 August 2013)

Steven Kepnes is Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion and Director of Jewish Studies at Colgate University, USA. His research and teaching focuses on Judaism, Jewish philosophy and ethics, and Western traditions in religion and philosophy. He is the author of numerous publications including Jewish Liturgical Reasoning (2007) and editor of Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter: Studying the “Other”, Understanding the “Self” (with Basit Koshul, 2007).

• Preface viiiAcknowledgments xii1 You Shall Be Holy 1Part One 272 Holy Blessings, Torah, People 293 Holy Shabbat 484 Holy Food and Holy Sacrifices 765 The Ethics of Holiness 1026 Prophetic Holiness 124Part Two 1457 Ethical Monotheism 1478 Textual Reasoning 1729 Liturgical Reasoning 20010 Scriptural Reasoning 21911 High Holiness 246Index 261

“Summing Up: Recommended. Professionals/practitioners; theologians."  (Choice, 1 August 2013)