Maimonides (eBook)

Life and Thought

Moshe HALBERTAL (Autor)

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2013
400 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4847-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A comprehensive and accessible account of the life and thought of Judaism's most celebrated philosopherMaimonides 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 booksCommentary 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.

Autor

Moshe Halbertal is the Gruss professor of Law at New York University, professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at the Hebrew University, and professor of law at IDC Herzliya in Israel. His books include On Sacrifice and Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and Its Philosophical Implications (both Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.11.2013
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Abraham ben David • Abraham Ibn Ezra • Aggadah • Al-Farabi • Allegory • Allusion • Anthropomorphism • Apostasy • Astrology • Averroes • Avicenna • Bikkurim (Talmud) • Book of Commandments • Christian mortalism • Conceptions of God • Consciousness • deity • Determination • divine law • divinity • Doctrine • Elijah • El Shaddai • Enlightenment (spiritual) • Epistle to Yemen • Exegesis • existence of god • existential crisis • ex nihilo • Explanation • Falsity • Fear of God • Gemara • geonim • God • God of Abraham • GREAT COMMANDMENT • Heresy • Idolatry • Image of God • inference • israelites • Jewish philosophy • Jews • Judah Halevi • Judah the Prince • Judaism • Kabbalah • Land of Israel • Literature • love of God • Maimonides • Messianic Age • messianism • mezuzah • Midrash • Mishnah • Mishneh Torah • Monotheism • Muslim • Names of God in Judaism • Omniscience • oral law • parable • Philosophy • Polemic • Political Philosophy • Prayer • Pre-existence • Problem of evil • Prophecy • Proselyte • Rabbi • rabbinic literature • Religion • religious experience • religious text • Repentance • Righteousness • Samuel ibn Tibbon • second coming • Sefer (Hebrew) • Shema Yisrael • skepticism • State of affairs (sociology) • Talmud • Tefillin • The Exodus • Theology • The Philosopher • Torah • Torah study • treatise • Western esotericism • World to come • World View • Worship • Writing • yeshiva • Yevamot
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4847-4 / 1400848474
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4847-8 / 9781400848478