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Author: Menachem Kellner Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1789628032 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 397
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Maimonides’ Mishneh torah presents not only a system of Jewish law, but also a system of values. This study focuses on the moral and philosophical meditations that close each volume of his code. The authors analyse these concluding passages to uncover the universalist outlook underlying Maimonides’ halakhic thought.
Author: Menachem Kellner Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1789628032 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 397
Book Description
Maimonides’ Mishneh torah presents not only a system of Jewish law, but also a system of values. This study focuses on the moral and philosophical meditations that close each volume of his code. The authors analyse these concluding passages to uncover the universalist outlook underlying Maimonides’ halakhic thought.
Author: David Gillis Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1789627796 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 463
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David Gillis’s highly original study of Maimonides’ Mishneh torah demonstrates that its form reflects a belief that observance of the divine commandments of the Torah brings the individual and society into line with the cosmic order. He shows that the Mishneh torah is intended to be an object of contemplation as well as a prescription for action, with the study of it in itself bringing the reader closer to knowledge of God.
Author: Menachem Kellner Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 190982108X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 364
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Maimonides’ vision of Judaism was deeply elitist, but at the same time profoundly universalistic. He was highly critical of the regnant Jewish culture of his day, which he perceived as so heavily influenced by ancient Jewish mysticism as to be debased. While focusing on that critique, Menachem Kellner skilfully and accessibly demonstrates how Maimonides used philosophy to purify a corrupted and paganized religion, and to present distinctions fundamental to Judaism as institutional, sociological, and historical, rather than ontological. In Maimonides’ hands, metaphysical distinctions are translated into moral challenges.
Author: Menachem Kellner Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1800347456 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 413
Book Description
Maimonides’ Mishneh torah presents not only a system of Jewish law, but also a system of values. This study focuses on the moral and philosophical meditations that close each volume of his code. The authors analyse these concluding passages to uncover the universalist outlook underlying Maimonides’ halakhic thought.
Author: Menachem Kellner Publisher: Academic Studies PRess ISBN: 1644696150 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 152
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Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed addressed Jews of his day who felt challenged by apparent contradictions between Torah and science. We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other uses Maimonides’ writings to address Jews of today who are perplexed by apparent contradictions between the morality of the Torah and their conviction that all human beings are created in the image of God and are the object of divine concern, that other religions have value, that genocide is never justified, and that slavery is evil. Individuals who choose to emphasize the moral and universalist elements of Jewish tradition can often find support in positions explicitly held by Maimonides or implied by his teachings. We Are Not Alone offers an ethical and universalist vision of traditionalist Judaism.
Author: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004298282 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 212
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Menachem Kellner is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa and now chair of the Department of Philosophy and Jewish thought at Shalem College in Jerusalem.
Author: Aaron W. Hughes Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199356815 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 191
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Rather than assume that the terms "philosophy" and "Judaism" simply belong together, Aaron W. Hughes explores the juxtaposition and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation. He examines the historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy.
Author: Menachem Marc Kellner Publisher: Academic Studies PRess ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 404
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This book explores the religious thought of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), the single most influential Jew of the last thousand years. While covering many aspects of his religious philosophy, the central focus of these essays is the way Maimonides elucidated and expressed the universalistic thrust of the Jewish tradition.
Author: Herbert A. Davidson Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 019517321X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 578
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Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial new biography, the work of many years, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson expounds all of his voluminous writings in exhaustive detail, with separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. This long-awaited volume is destined to become the standard work on this towering figure of Western intellectual history.
Author: Daniel Davies Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1509522948 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 134
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The most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides is known for his monumental contributions to Jewish law, theology and medicine, and for an influence that extends into the wider world. His remarkable work, The Guide for the Perplexed, is notoriously difficult to interpret, since Maimonides aimed it at those already versed in both philosophy and the rabbinic tradition and used literary techniques to test his readers and force them to think through his arguments. Daniel Davies explores Maimonides’ approaches to issues of perennial and universal concern: human nature and the soul, the problem of evil, the creation of the world, the question of God’s existence, and negative theology. He addresses the unusual ways in which Maimonides presented his arguments, contextualising Maimonides’ thought in the philosophy and religion of his own time, as well as elucidating it for today’s readers. This philosophically rich introduction is an essential guide for students and scholars of medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion, theology and Jewish studies.
Author: Menachem Kellner
Author: Menachem Kellner
Author: David Gillis
Author: Menachem Kellner
Author: Menachem Kellner
Author: Menachem Kellner
Author: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Author: Aaron W. Hughes
Author: Menachem Marc Kellner
Author: Herbert A. Davidson
Author: Daniel Davies