TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sheer,Charles H.
TI  - Maimonides' Grand Epistle to the Scholars of Lunel: Ideology and Rhetoric 
SN  - 9781618119605
AV  - BM755.M6 
U1  - 296.1/81 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - Academic Studies Press, 
KW  - Hebrew language
KW  - Prosodic analysis
KW  - Jewish scholars
KW  - France
KW  - Lunel
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)
KW  - Responsa
KW  - 1040-1600
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Code of Jewish Law
KW  - Epistolary compositions
KW  - Hokhmah
KW  - Iggeret
KW  - Late Middle Ages
KW  - Maimonides
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Mishneh Torah
KW  - Scholars of Lunel
KW  - Sephardic poetic style
KW  - Tanakh
KW  - Torah
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Maimonides' Grand Iggeret to R. Jonathan of Lunel --; Chapter 2. The First Half of the Iggeret in Rhymed Prose --; Chapter 3. Maimonides' Unanticipated and Problematic Style Reversal --; Chapter 4. Maimonides' Letter to Judge Anatoli --; Chapter 5. The Letters from R. Jonathan of Lunel --; Chapter 6. The Second Half of the Iggeret in Unadorned Prose --; Chapter 7. Maimonides and the Lunel Scholars-Reconsidered --; Appendix --; Endnotes; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - When Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law) reached Lunel, France, a group of scholars composed twenty-four objections to his positions. Surprisingly, Maimonides' rejoinder opened with an unusual rhymed prose epistle with effusive praise for his correspondents and artistic and complex language. In this book, Charles Sheer offers the first annotated translation of the entire epistle: he uncovers the biblical and midrashic passages modified by Maimonides that became the language of his Iggeret, and explicates its ideas in the context of Maimonides' other works and compositions of the late Middle Ages. He illustrates how Maimonides, in a most personal fashion, shared with these scholars his ideological struggle between his love for Torah study and "hokhmah" (philosophy, wisdom). This Grand Epistle reveals much about this towering figure and provides a moving portrait of him during his last decade
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618119629?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781618119629
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