Accounting for the commandments in medieval Judaism :: studies in law, philosophy, pietism, and kabbalah /

"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 materi...

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Weitere Verfasser: Brown, Jeremy P. (Jeremy Phillip) (HerausgeberIn), Herman, Marc, 1983- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 86.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9004460942
9789004460942
ISSN:0169-815X ;

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