Accounting for the commandments in medieval Judaism : : studies in law, philosophy, pietism, and kabbalah / / edited by Jeremy P. Brown, Marc Herman.
Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism explores the discursive formation of the commandments as a generative matrix of Jewish thought and life in the posttalmudic period. Each study sheds light on how medieval Jews crafted the commandments out of theretofore underdetermined material. By...
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Superior document: | Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; 86 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Commandments as a Discursive Nexus of Medieval Judaism
- Marc Herman and Jeremy P. Brown
- Case Studies in Individual Commandments
- 2 Dê Maḥsoro as the Key to Jewish Almsgiving: A Maimonidean Interpretive Innovation and Its Legal Afterlife to the Fifteenth Century
- Alyssa M. Gray
- 3 The Taqqanah of the Moredet in the Middle Ages
- Judith R. Baskin
- 4 An Early Kabbalistic Explanation of Temple Sacrifice: Text and Study
- Jonathan Dauber
- The Ramifications of Maimonides
- 5 Early Evaluation of Maimonides's Enumeration of the Commandments against the Background of the Eastern Maimonidean Controversy
- Marc Herman
- 6 Maimonides's Long Journey from Greek to Jewish Ethics
- Albert Dov Friedberg
- 7 The Reasons for the Commandments in Isaac Ibn Laṭīf's The Gate of Heaven (1238)
- Guadalupe González Diéguez
- Accounting for the Decalogue
- 8 The Ten Commandments Are Implanted in Human Minds: Abraham Ibn Ezra's Rational Approach to the Decalogue
- Mariano Gómez Aranda
- 9 Decoding the Decalogue: Theosophical Re-engraving of the Ten Commandments in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah
- Avishai Bar-Asher
- Discourses of Ṭaʿame ha-miṣvot : Tosafism, Rhineland Pietism, Egyptian Pietism, Kabbalah, Sabbatianism
- 10 Ṭaʿame ha-miṣvot in Medieval Ashkenaz
- Ephraim Kanarfogel
- 11 Pietism in the Law and the Law of Pietism: From Moses to Abraham Maimonides
- Elisha Russ-Fishbane
- 12 A Castilian Debate about the Aims and Limits of Theurgic Practice: Rationalizing Incest Taboos in the Zohar , Moses de León, and Joseph of Hamadan
- Leore Sachs-Shmueli
- 13 Ascesis, Hypernomianism, and the Excess of Lack: Semiotic Transfiguration of the Somatic
- Elliot R. Wolfson
- Select Bibliography
- Index.