Opening the gates of interpretation : Maimonides' biblical hermeneutics in light of his Geonic-Andalusian heritage and Muslim milieu /
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| Author / Creator: | Cohen, Mordechai Z. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011. |
| Description: | xxviii, 566 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval ; t. 48 Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 48. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8462134 |
| Summary: | The biblical hermeneutics of the illustrious philosopher-talmudist Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) has long been underappreciated, and viewed in isolation from the celebrated philological schools of "plain sense" ( peshat ) Jewish Bible exegesis. Aiming to redress this imbalance, this study identifies Maimonides' substantial contributions to that interpretive movement, assessing its achievements in cultural context. Like others in the rationalist Geonic-Andalusian school, Maimonides' understanding of Scripture was informed by Arabic learning. Drawing upon Greco-Arabic logic, poetics, politics, physics and metaphysics, as well as Muslim jurisprudence, he devised sophisticated new approaches to key issues that occupied other exegetes, including a variety of interpretive cruxes, the reconciliation of Scripture with reason, a legal hermeneutics for deriving halakhah (Jewish law) from Scripture, and the nature of interpretation itself.<br><br>"It is a valuable contribution to the entire study of medieval biblical exegesis and will undoubtedly serve as the basis of all subsequent discussions of Maimonides' hermeneutics."<br>Daniel J. Lasker, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev <br> |
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| Physical Description: | xxviii, 566 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004189324 9004189327 |