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Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon (Paperback)
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Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon (Paperback)
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Jewish thought since the Middle Ages can be regarded as a sustained
dialogue with Moses Maimonides, regardless of the different social,
cultural, and intellectual environments in which it was conducted.
Much of Jewish intellectual history can be viewed as a series of
engagements with him, fueled by the kind of 'Jewish' rabbinic and
esoteric writing Maimonides practiced. This book examines a wide
range of theologians, philosophers, and exegetes who share a
passionate engagement with Maimonides, assaulting, adopting,
subverting, or adapting his philosophical and jurisprudential
thought. This ongoing enterprise is critical to any appreciation of
the broader scope of Jewish law, philosophy, biblical
interpretation, and Kabbalah. Maimonides's legal, philosophical,
and exegetical corpus became canonical in the sense that many
subsequent Jewish thinkers were compelled to struggle with it in
order to advance their own thought. As such, Maimonides joins
fundamental Jewish canon alongside the Bible, the Talmud, and the
Zohar.
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