The convert (ger): metaphor of Jewishness
The leper: illness as contemplative metaphor
Elisha ben Abuyah and the hubris of the heretic
The king: the ethics of imperial humility
The sage/philosopher: a solitude of universalism
God, the supreme outsider: indwelling (shekhinah) as metaphor for outdwelling
Deconstructing God's indwelling: the challenge to Halevi
Sabbath: the temporal outsider.
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Converts, heretics, and lepers : Maimonides and the outsider by James Arthur Diamond. ISBN 9780268025922. Published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
