Introduction to the Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah)
Title | Introduction to the Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah) PDF eBook |
Author | Isadore Twersky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 641 |
Release | 1982-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780300028461 |
This book is a literary-historical study of the Mishneh Torah, Maimonides' great Code of Jewish law, organized around five characteristics repeatedly emphasized by Maimonides himself: codificatory form, scope, classification, language and style, philosophy and law. The analysis attempts to correlate his own self-perception, his own characterization and evaluation of his work, with the actual product--an objective assessment of the constructs, categories, and conclusions of his work, shaken free of struts and preconceptions.
The Book of Cleanness
Title | The Book of Cleanness PDF eBook |
Author | Moses Maimonides |
Publisher | |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780300003970 |
"Maimonides' monumental 14-volume code on Jewish law has had a profound influence on Jewish life since the Middle Ages. This lucid study is the first thorough literary-historical study of the Mishneh Torah. Twersky ... analyzes the reasons for the Code's composition, its relationship to Maimonides' other works, the milieu in which it was written, and illuminates the reasons for its lasting importance."--Library Journal
The Code of Maimonides: The book of acquisition
Title | The Code of Maimonides: The book of acquisition PDF eBook |
Author | Moses Maimonides |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Jewish law |
ISBN |
The Code of Maimonides
Title | The Code of Maimonides PDF eBook |
Author | Moses Maimonides |
Publisher | |
Pages | 525 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780300007176 |
"Maimonides' monumental 14-volume code on Jewish law has had a profound influence on Jewish life since the Middle Ages. This lucid study is the first thorough literary-historical study of the Mishneh Torah. Twersky ... analyzes the reasons for the Code's composition, its relationship to Maimonides' other works, the milieu in which it was written, and illuminates the reasons for its lasting importance."--Library Journal
Maimonides
Title | Maimonides PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Halbertal |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2013-11-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1400848474 |
A comprehensive and accessible account of the life and thought of Judaism's most celebrated philosopher Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of Jewish tradition. Moshe Halbertal vividly describes Maimonides's childhood in Muslim Spain, his family's flight to North Africa to escape persecution, and their eventual resettling in Egypt. He draws on Maimonides's letters and the testimonies of his contemporaries, both Muslims and Jews, to offer new insights into his personality and the circumstances that shaped his thinking. Halbertal then turns to Maimonides's legal and philosophical work, analyzing his three great books—Commentary on the Mishnah, the Mishneh Torah, and the Guide of the Perplexed. He discusses Maimonides's battle against all attempts to personify God, his conviction that God's presence in the world is mediated through the natural order rather than through miracles, and his locating of philosophy and science at the summit of the religious life of Torah. Halbertal examines Maimonides's philosophical positions on fundamental questions such as the nature and limits of religious language, creation and nature, prophecy, providence, the problem of evil, and the meaning of the commandments. A stunning achievement, Maimonides offers an unparalleled look at the life and thought of this important Jewish philosopher, scholar, and theologian.
The Code of Maimonides: The book of acquisition
Title | The Code of Maimonides: The book of acquisition PDF eBook |
Author | Moses Maimonides |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Jewish law |
ISBN |
"Maimonides' monumental 14-volume code on Jewish law has had a profound influence on Jewish life since the Middle Ages. This lucid study is the first thorough literary-historical study of the Mishneh Torah. Twersky ... analyzes the reasons for the Code's composition, its relationship to Maimonides' other works, the milieu in which it was written, and illuminates the reasons for its lasting importance."--Library Journal
The Code of Maimonides
Title | The Code of Maimonides PDF eBook |
Author | Moses Maimonides |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780300022230 |