Crafting the 613 Commandments

Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments

Albert D. Friedberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2014
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
9781618113870 (ISBN)

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Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegomenon to the Mishneh Torah, his monumental code of law.

This book explores the surprising way Maimonides put this tradition to use and his possible rationale for using such a tradition. It also explores many of the philosophical and ethical ideas animating the composition of such a list. In the book's second half, Friedberg examines the manner by which Maimonides formulated positive commandments in the Mishneh Torah, leading him to suggest new dimensions in Maimonides' legal theory.

Albert D. Friedberg (PhD University of Toronto, Canada) is a scholar of medieval Jewish literature and philosophy and early rabbinic literature. His published articles include A New Clue in the Dating of the Composition of the Book of Esther, and Maimonides' Reinterpretation of the Thirteenth Article of Faith: Another Look at his Essay on Resurrection.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.4.2014
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9781618113870 / 9781618113870
Zustand	Neuware