Maimonides and the hermeneutics of concealment : desciphering scripture and Midrash in the "Guide to perplexed"
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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- Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
- ISBN13 9780791452486
- ISBN10 0791452484
- Tipo Libro
- Páginas 235
- Colección Suny series in jewish philosophy
- Año de Edición 2002
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Rústica
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Filosofía Islamica/filosofía JudáicaMaimonides and the hermeneutics of concealment : desciphering scripture and Midrash in the "Guide to perplexed"
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment demonstrates the type of hermeneutic that the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) engaged in throughout his treatise, The Guide of the Perplexed. By comprehensively analyzing Maimonides' use of rabbinic and scriptural sources, James Arthur Diamond argues that, far from being merely prooftexts, they are in fact essential components of Maimonides' esoteric stratagem. Diamond's close reading of biblical and rabbinic citations in the Guide not only penetrates its multilayered structure to arrive at its core meaning, but also distinguishes Maimonides as a singular contributor to the Jewish exegetical tradition.