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Maimonides and the shaping of the Jewish Canon /

Examines a wide range of theologians, philosophers, and exegetes who share a passionate engagement with Maimonides.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Diamond, James Arthur (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Moses Maimonides: anchoring Jewish intellectual history
  • Setting the stage for the future of Jewish thought
  • Maimonides on Maimonides: loving God rabbinically and philosophically
  • Nahmanides on Jewish identity (13th century): launching the Kabbalistic assault
  • R. Yom Tov ben Abraham Ishbili (13th-14th century): pushing back the assault
  • Isaac Abarbanel (15th century): the Akedah of faith vs. the Akedah of reason
  • Meir ibn Gabbai (16th century): the aimlessness of philosophy
  • Spinoza (17th century) and a Buberian afterword (20th century): reorienting Maimonides' scriptural hermeneutic
  • Hermann Cohen (19th century): a new religion of reason out of the sources of Maimonides
  • R. Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (19th century): loving God strictly rabbinically
  • R. Abraham Isaac Kook (20th century): a Kabbalistic reinvention of Maimonides' legal code
  • Conclusion: the Maimonidean filigree of Jewish thought: Kafka, Scholem, and beyond.