Maimonides and the shaping of the Jewish Canon / James A. Diamond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamond, James Arthur, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204--Philosophy.

Maimonides, Moses.

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204--Influence.

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.

Jewish philosophy.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Jewish philosophers.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

viii, 319 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction: Moses Maimonides : anchoring Jewish intellectual history

Setting the stage for the future of Jewish thought : what constitutes the "Jewishness" of Maimonides' thought?

Maimonides on Maimonides : loving God rabbinically and philosophically

Nahmanides (13th century) : launching the Kabbalistic assault

R. Yom Tov ben Abraham Ishbili (13th-14th centuries) : 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) : 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781107063341

1107063345

OCLC:

861665611

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