Problems and Parables of Law: Maimonides and Nahmanides on Reasons for the Commandments (Ta’amei Ha-Mitzvot) (SUNY series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion) - Hardcover

Stern, Josef

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791438236 ISBN 13: 9780791438237

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1998

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Book by Stern Josef

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A rigorous analysis of Maimonides' and Nahmanides' explanations of the Mosaic commandments that challenges received notions of the relation between these two seminal thinkers.

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In this first book-length treatment of a subject that has been relatively overlooked by scholars since Isaac Heinemann's classic work in the 1950s, Josef Stern offers an original analysis of two major themes in Maimonides' explanation of the Law and its impact on Nahmanides. The first theme is Maimonides' reconceptualization of the huqqim, those commandments that were traditionally asserted either to have no reason or a reason that is unknown or unknowable. The second theme is Maimonides' application of his method of multi-leveled interpretation that treats texts as parables with "external" and "internal" meaning to the explanation of commandments with multiple reasons. Both of these innovative modes of explanation are adopted by Nahmanides, who refined and adapted Maimonides' structures of interpretation to express diametrically opposed contents. From this perspective there emerges a picture of the relation between these two seminal figures of medieval Judaism that is much more subtle than the received opinion that bluntly opposes them, the radical arch rationalist against the mystical traditionalist.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0791438236
• ISBN 13: 9780791438237
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 201