Between Rashi and Maimonides
Subtitle: themes in medieval Jewish thought, literature and exegesis
By: edited by Ephraim Kanarfogel and Moshe Sokolow.
Contributors: Kanarfogel, Ephraim.; Sokolow, Moshe.
Publisher: Ktav
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jersey City, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9781602801387
Subjects: Maimonides, Moses, -- 1135-1204 -- Congresses; Rashi, -- 1040-1105 -- Congresses; Jewish philosophy -- Congresses; Philosophy, Medieval -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: The genesis of this volume was an international conference held at Yeshiva University in late 2004, to mark both the 900th anniversary of the passing of Rashi (1040-1105) and the 800th anniversary of the passing of Maimonides (d. 1204).
Table of contents: title: Rashi and Maimonides on Christianity / Daniel Lasker; title: Rashi and Maimonides on Torah and the cosmos / Menahem Kellner; title: The separate intellects and Maimonides' argumentation (an inquiry into Guide of the Perplexed II, 2,12) / Dov Schwartz; title: The ravings of amulet writers: Maimonides and his disciples on language, nature and magic / Aviezer Ravitzky; title: On Maimonides in Nahmanides and his school / Moshe Idel; title: Where penitents stand, even the wholly righteous cannot stand / Nahum Rakover; title: The first crusade narrative of R. Eliezer B. Nathan / Robert Chazan; title: The problem of identity in Rashi, Rambam and the Tosafists / Rabbi Bleich; title: Between Ashkenaz and Sefarad: Tosafist teachings in the Talmud commentaries of Ritva / Ephraim Kanarfogel; title: Sages on stages, or guides on the sides? Rashi, Rambam and constructivist educational theory / Scott J. Goldberg and Moshe Sokolow; title: The weight of midrash on Rashi and Maimonides / Alfred Ivry; title: Maimonides vs. Rashi: philosophical and philological-ethical approaches to Job / Mordekhai Cohen; title: Ve-af al pi she-hazal qiblu: peshat and halakhah in Radak's exegesis / Naomi Grunhaus; title: Ramban on the dynamics of the biblical dialogue in the Book of Genesis / Michelle J. Levine; title: Words unfitly spoken: late medieval criticism of the role of midrash in Rashi's commentary on the Torah / Eric Lawee.