Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment
Subtitle: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in the Guide of the Perplexed (Suny Series in Jewish Philosophy)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780791452486
Subjects: Non-Western philosophy; Philosophy; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Dalalat al-hairin; Religion - Biblical Studies; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - Old Testament; Midrash; History and criticism; Religious; History & Surveys - Medieval; Dalåalat al-òhåa®iråin; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Biblical Studies - Exegesis & Hermeneutics; Bible; Maimonides, Moses,; O.T; Judaism - General; O.T.; 1135-1204; 1135-1204.; Bible.; Hermeneutics
Description: "Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment demonstrates the type of hermeneutic that the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) engaged in throughout his treatise, The Guide of the Perplexed. By comprehensively analyzing Maimonides' use of rabbinic and scriptural sources, James Arthur Diamond argues that, far from being merely prooftexts, they are in fact essential components of Maimonides' esoteric stratagem.

Diamond's close reading of biblical and rabbinic citations in the Guide not only penetrates its multilayered structure to arrive at its core meaning, but also distinguishes Maimonides as a singular contributor to the Jewish exegetical tradition."--BOOK JACKET.