Crafting the 613 commandments : : Maimonides on the enumeration, classification, and formulation of the scriptural commandments / / Albert D. Friedberg.
Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegemenon to the Mishneh Torah, his monumental code of l...
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| Superior document: | Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Academic Studies Press,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Holocaust (Boston, Mass.)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Abbreviations, citations, translations, and transliterations
- Editions Used
- English Translations and Transliterations
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER I. Introduction
- CHAPTER II. Important Definitions and Concepts
- CHAPTER III. Typology of Mitsvot
- CHAPTER IV. Logically Inconclusive Individuations
- CHAPTER V. Innovative Commandments
- CHAPTER VI. Revisiting the Term Mitsvat 'Aseh
- CHAPTER VII. Peshateh Di-Qera
- CHAPTER VIII. The Participial Form and Other Peculiarities
- CHAPTER IX. When Mitsvah Stands Alone
- CHAPTER X. Summary and Conclusion
- Excursus
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Citations Index
- Index of Names