Alan L. Mittleman 
A Short History of Jewish Ethics [PDF ebook] 
Conduct and Character in the Context of Covenant

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction 1

1 Ethics in the Axial Age 16

2 Some Aspects of Rabbinic Ethics 52

3 Medieval Philosophical Ethics 88

4 Medieval Rabbinic and Kabbalistic Ethics 124

5 Modern Jewish Ethics 156

Conclusion 199

Index 202

Alan Mittleman is Professor of Jewish Thought at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. His books include
Hope in a Democratic Age (2009) and
The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah (2000). Mittleman’s work seeks to bring Jewish thought into a constructive conversation with ethics, political theory, and philosophy of religion.