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Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought - From Maimonides to Abravanel (Paperback, Revised)
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Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought - From Maimonides to Abravanel (Paperback, Revised)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought is an essay in the history of
ideas which traces the development of creed formation in Judaism
from its inception with Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) to the
beginning of the sixteenth century when systematic attention to the
problem disappeared from the agenda of Jewish intellectuals. The
dogmatic systems of Maimonides, Duran, Crescas, Albo, Bibago,
Abravanel, and a dozen lesser-known figures are described,
analysed, and compared. Relevant texts are presented in English
translation. For the most part these are texts which have never
been critically edited and translated before. Among the theses
defended in the book are the following: that systematic attention
to dogma qua dogma was a new feature in Jewish theology introduced
by Maimonides (for reasons examined at length in the book); that
the subject languished for the two centuries after Maimonides'
death until it was revived in fifteenth-century Spain in response
to Christian attacks on Judaism; that the differing systems of
dogma offered by medieval Jewish thinkers reflect not different
conceptions of what Judaism is, but different conceptions of what a
principle of Judaism is; and that the very project of creed
formation reflects an essentially Greek as opposed to a
biblical/rabbinic view of the nature of religious faith and that
this accounts for much of the resistance which Maimonides'
innovation aroused.
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