Accounting for the commandments in medieval Judaism: studies in law, philosophy, pietism, and kabbalah
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, correlating the diverse domains of jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Accounting for the commandments in medieval Judaism : Studies in Law, Philosophy, Pietism and Kabbalah] (2023) (Fishkin, Dana W.)
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| Series/Journal: | Études Sur le Judaïsme Médiéval Ser.
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Law (Theology)
/ Commandment
/ History 500-1500
B Cabala / Law (Theology) |
| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
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| Summary: | 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, correlating the diverse domains of jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah. Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Commandments as a Discursive Nexusof Medieval Judaism -- Case Studies in Individual Commandments -- Chapter 2 Dê Maḥsoro as the Key to Jewish Almsgiving: A Maimonidean Interpretive Innovation and Its Legal Afterlife to the Fifteenth Century -- Chapter 3 The Taqqanah of the Moredet in the Middle Ages -- Chapter 4 An Early Kabbalistic Explanation of Temple Sacrifice: Text and Study -- The Ramifications of Maimonides -- Chapter 5 Early Evaluation of Maimonides's Enumeration of the Commandments against the Background of the Eastern Maimonidean Controversy -- Chapter 6 Maimonides's Long Journey from Greekto Jewish Ethics -- Chapter 7 The Reasons for the Commandments in Isaac Ibn Laṭīf's The Gate of Heaven (1238) -- Accounting for the Decalogue -- Chapter 8 The Ten Commandments are Implanted in Human Minds: Abraham Ibn Ezra's Rational Approach to the Decalogue -- Chapter 9 Decoding the Decalogue: Theosophical Re-engraving of the Ten Commandments in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah -- Discourses of Ṭaʿame ha-miṣvot: Tosafism, Rhineland Pietism, Egyptian Pietism, Kabbalah, Sabbatianism -- Chapter 10 Ṭaʿame ha-miṣvot in Medieval Ashkenaz -- Chapter 11 Pietism in the Law and the Law of Pietism: From Moses to Abraham Maimonides -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 13 Ascesis, Hypernomianism, and the Excess of Lack: Semiotic Transfiguration of the Somatic -- Select Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9004460942 |