Interpreting Maimonides: Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9781316635384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 278 str.

Charles H. Manekin; Daniel Davies

Opis

Gathers incisive reflections on and novel interpretations of the philosophy of the most important Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Maimonides and the Almohads Herbert A. Davidson; 2. Al-Ghazālī's purported 'Influence' on Maimonides: a dissenting voice in trending scholarship Y. Tzvi Langermann; 3. Maimonides on the intellects of women and gentiles Hannah Kasher; 4. What the Guide of the Perplexed is really about Kenneth R. Seeskin; 5. On or above the Ladder? Maimonidean and anti-Maimonidean readings of Jacob's Ladder James T. Robinson; 6. Reading the Guide of the Perplexed as an intellectual challenge Sarah Klein Braslavy; 7. Jewish ritual as trial in the Guide of the Perplexed Yehuda Halper; 8. Maimonides on the divine authorship of the law Charles H. Manekin; 9. Divine knowledge and providence in the Guide of the Perplexed Daniel Davies; 10. The world and the rye: perplexity about ends in Guide of the Perplexed iii.13 and iii.25 David Wirmer; 11. Early quotations from Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed in the Latin Middle Ages Diana Di Segni; 12. Pines' agendas for reading the Guide of the Perplexed from 1963 to 1979 Josef Stern; 13. How to begin to study Strauss' 'How to Begin to Study the Guide of the Perplexed' Warren Zev Harvey.