Moses Maimonides : a very short introduction /
Ross Brann
Bok · Engelsk · 2025 · Biographies.
| Omfang | pages cm
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| Utgave | First edition.
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| Opplysninger | Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Maimonides And His World -- Chapter Two: "Back Home In The West" -- Chapter Three: Loving God With The Mind -- Chapter Four: The Humanistic Rabbi, Philosopher, Physician -- Chapter Five: Turning The Parochial Into The Universal -- Chapter Six: Maimonides In Historical Perspective.. - "Writing about Moses Maimonides is a humbling challenge especially in the form of a very short introduction. Such a larger-than-life subject resists reductive interpretation in virtually all his works and in his person. Maimonidean scholarship abounds as do books about him written for the reading public in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and Hebrew. Until recently, academic monographs and articles tended to focus strictly on Maimonides' biography, rabbinical works, philosophical oeuvre, communal endeavors, or his medical writings separately. Comprehensive studies on Maimonides are apt to follow this model by devoting chapters to each of these discreet subjects. This very short introduction to Moses Maimonides draws on Maimonidean scholarship in each of his areas of experience and literary activity. It follows current trends in research which present an integrated view of Maimonides as a rabbinic scholar without peer, a philosophically minded deep thinker, religious reformer (who thought of his life's project as restoring the authentic meaning and details of the written and oral Torah), communal leader, physician, and scientist who moved seamlessly between specialized, private and public Jewish and Muslim spheres. Indeed, his written works traverse multiple disciplines and discourses, employ several linguistic registers, voices, and literary genres, and address various audiences. Accordingly, this book organizes Maimonides' thinking and writings thematically by way of suggestive "chapter headings" to use one his catch phrases in The Guide of the Perplexed (although not in the sense of enigmas and puzzles to be deciphered) and puts his works into dialogue with one another intertextually"--
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| Emner | Maimonides, Moses, , 1135-1204 - Teachings.
Jewish philosophers - Egypt Rabbis - Egypt Jewish scholars - Egypt |
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| ISBN | 9780197536988
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