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  • Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism: Studies in Law, Philosophy, Pietism, and Kabbalah

    Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism by Brown, Jeremy P.; Herman, Marc;

    Studies in Law, Philosophy, Pietism, and Kabbalah

    Series: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval; 86;

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    • Publisher BRILL
    • Date of Publication 20 January 2022

    • ISBN 9789004460935
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 235x155 mm
    • Weight 643 g
    • Language English
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    Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism explores the discursive formation of the commandments as a generative matrix of Jewish thought and life in the posttalmudic period, correlating the diverse domains of jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah.

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    Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism explores the discursive formation of the commandments as a generative matrix of Jewish thought and life in the posttalmudic period. Each study sheds light on how medieval Jews crafted the commandments out of theretofore underdetermined material. By systematizing, representing, or interrogating the amorphous category of commandment, medieval Jewish authors across both the Islamic and Christian spheres of influence sought to explain, justify, and characterize Israel’s legal system, divine revelation, the cosmos, and even the divine order. This volume correlates bodies of knowledge—such as jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah—that are normally treated in isolation into a single conversation about a shared constitutional concern.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements



    Introduction



    1 The Commandments as a Discursive Nexus of Medieval Judaism

    Marc Herman and Jeremy P. Brown



    Case Studies in Individual Commandments



    2 Dê Maḥsoro as the Key to Jewish Almsgiving: A Maimonidean Interpretive Innovation and Its Legal Afterlife to the Fifteenth Century

    Alyssa M. Gray



    3 The Taqqanah of the Moredet in the Middle Ages

    Judith R. Baskin



    4 An Early Kabbalistic Explanation of Temple Sacrifice: Text and Study

    Jonathan Dauber



    The Ramifications of Maimonides



    5 Early Evaluation of Maimonides’s Enumeration of the Commandments against the Background of the Eastern Maimonidean Controversy

    Marc Herman



    6 Maimonides’s Long Journey from Greek to Jewish Ethics

    Albert Dov Friedberg



    7 The Reasons for the Commandments in Isaac Ibn Laṭīf’s The Gate of Heaven (1238)

    Guadalupe González Diéguez



    Accounting for the Decalogue



    8 The Ten Commandments Are Implanted in Human Minds: Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Rational Approach to the Decalogue

    Mariano Gómez Aranda



    9 Decoding the Decalogue: Theosophical Re
    -engraving of the Ten Commandments in Thirteenth
    -Century Kabbalah


    Avishai Bar
    -Asher




    Discourses of Ṭaʿame ha
    -miṣvot
    : Tosafism, Rhineland Pietism, Egyptian Pietism, Kabbalah, Sabbatianism



    10 Ṭaʿame ha
    -miṣvot
    in Medieval Ashkenaz


    Ephraim Kanarfogel



    11 Pietism in the Law and the Law of Pietism: From Moses to Abraham Maimonides

    Elisha Russ
    -Fishbane




    12 A Castilian Debate about the Aims and Limits of Theurgic Practice: Rationalizing Incest Taboos in the Zohar, Moses de León, and Joseph of Hamadan

    Leore Sachs
    -Shmueli




    13 Ascesis, Hypernomianism, and the Excess of Lack: Semiotic Transfiguration of the Somatic

    Elliot R. Wolfson



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