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Nahmanides : law and mysticism / Moshe Halbertal ; translated from the Hebrew by Daniel Tabak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halbertal, Moshe, author.
- Series:
- Yale scholarship online.
- Yale scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Dereckh ha-Emet. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Naḥmanides, approximately 1195-approximately 1270.
- Naḥmanides.
- Jewish law.
- Mysticism--Judaism.
- Mysticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (451 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- A broad, systematic account of one of the most original and creative kabbalists, biblical interpreters, and Talmudic scholars the Jewish tradition has ever produced Rabbi Moses b. Nahman (1194-1270), known in English as Nahmanides, was the greatest Talmudic scholar of the thirteenth century and one of the deepest and most original biblical interpreters.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Translator’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Nahmanides’s Philosophy of Halakhah
- 2 Custom and the History of Halakhah
- 3 Death, Sin, Law, and Redemption
- 4 Miracles and the Chain of Being
- 5 Revelation and Prophecy
- 6 Nahmanides’s Conception of History
- 7 The Reasons for the Commandments
- 8 Esotericism and Tradition
- Conclusion: Nahmanides between Ashkenaz and Andalusia
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- General Index
- Index of Sources
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 1, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 0-300-25701-5
- OCLC:
- 1193575399
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