In and Around Maimonides : : Original Essays / / Y. Langermann.

In and Around Maimonides presents eight highly focused studies on Moses Maimonides and those around him. “In Maimonides” refers to close readings of passages from Maimonides’ writings; “around Maimonides” refers to concentric circles, beginning with his own family (his father R. Maimon and his son R...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Judaism in Context ; 25
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER ONE. AGAINST WHOM IS MAIMONIDES ARGUING IN GUIDE I, 68?
  • CHAPTER TWO. CONFIGURING THE SOUL: MAIMONIDES ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF MORAL CHARACTER
  • CHAPTER THREE. WHY IS THERE NO DISCUSSION OF THE EQUIVOCAL TERM ʾOR (‘LIGHT’) IN THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED?
  • CHAPTER FOUR. THE FACE OF GOD IN THE THOUGHT OF MOSES MAIMONIDES AND THE ARABOPHONE MAIMONIDEANS
  • CHAPTER FIVE. AN EXTENSIVE MARGINALIUM ON THE EXPRESSION, ‘HUMANS ARE SOCIAL BY NATURE’, IN A YEMENI COMMENTARY TO MAIMONIDES’ GUIDE
  • CHAPTER SIX. ‘THE MOST DIFFICULT OF ALL THE PREMISES’: A YEMENI COMMENTARY TO MAIMONIDES’ GUIDE, BOOK II, PROPOSITION 16
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT AUTHORITY: THE APPEAL TO PLATO AT CRITICAL JUNCTURES IN HALEVI’S CUZARI AND MAIMONIDES’ GUIDE
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. THE VOCABULARIES OF ‘RELIGION’ IN THE WRITINGS OF HALEVI AND MAIMONIDES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX