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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (viii, 319 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781139923125
  • 1139923129
  • 9781107478039
  • 1107478030
  • 9781139911382
  • 1139911384
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Maimonides and the shaping of the Jewish CanonDDC classification:
  • 296.1/81 23
LOC classification:
  • B759.M34 D485 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • cci1icc
  • coll4
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Contents:
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.
Summary: Examines a wide range of theologians, philosophers, and exegetes who share a passionate engagement with Maimonides.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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