TY - BOOK AU - Diamond,James Arthur TI - Maimonides and the shaping of the Jewish Canon SN - 9781139923125 AV - B759.M34 D485 2014eb U1 - 296.1/81 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Maimonides, Moses, KW - Maimonides, Moses KW - Jewish philosophy KW - Philosophy, Medieval KW - Jewish philosophers KW - Philosophie juive KW - Philosophie médiévale KW - Philosophes juifs KW - RELIGION KW - Judaism KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - fast KW - Philosophy KW - Einfluss KW - gnd KW - Jüdische Philosophie N1 - 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 N2 - Examines a wide range of theologians, philosophers, and exegetes who share a passionate engagement with Maimonides UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=761475 ER -