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Introduction to the Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah) / by Isadore Twersky.
Van Pelt Library BM520.84 .T83 1980
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twersky, Isadore.
- Series:
- Yale Judaica series ; v. 22.
- Yale Judaica series ; v. 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Mishneh Torah.
- Maimonides, Moses.
- Jewish law.
- Jewish philosophy.
- Mishneh Torah (Maimonides, Moses).
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 641 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1980.
- Summary:
- This book is a literary-historical study of the Mishneh Torah, Maimonides' great Code of Jewish law, organized around five characteristics repeatedly emphasized by Maimonides himself: codificatory form, scope, classification, language and style, philosophy and law. The analysis attempts to correlate his own self-perception, his own characterization and evaluation of his work, with the actual product--an objective assessment of the constructs, categories, and conclusions of his work, shaken free of struts and preconceptions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-610) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish Thought, Winner, 1981
- ISBN:
- 0300023197
- 9780300023190
- 0300028466
- 9780300028461
- OCLC:
- 4804482
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