Maimonides and the shaping of the Jewish Canon /
Diamond, James Arthur,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and indexes.
Introduction: Moses Maimonides: anchoring Jewish intellectual history -- Setting the stage for the future of Jewish thought -- Maimonides on Maimonides: loving God rabbinically and philosophically -- Nahmanides on Jewish identity (13th century): launching the Kabbalistic assault -- R. Yom Tov ben Abraham Ishbili (13th-14th century): pushing back the assault -- Isaac Abarbanel (15th century): the Akedah of faith vs. the Akedah of reason -- Meir ibn Gabbai (16th century): the aimlessness of philosophy -- Spinoza (17th century) and a Buberian afterword (20th century): reorienting Maimonides' scriptural hermeneutic -- Hermann Cohen (19th century): a new religion of reason out of the sources of Maimonides -- R. Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (19th century): loving God strictly rabbinically -- R. Abraham Isaac Kook (20th century): a Kabbalistic reinvention of Maimonides' legal code -- Conclusion: the Maimonidean filigree of Jewish thought: Kafka, Scholem, and beyond.
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
Jewish philosophy.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Jewish philosophers.