Traditions of Maimonideanism /
This volume sheds new light on Maimonidesa (TM) work in medicine, Jewish law, and liturgy, and on how his philosophy was read, misread, and creatively reinvented in a wide range of contexts from the 13th century to the present.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9789047426790 9047426797 1282603132 9781282603134 |
| ISSN: | 1570-1581 ; |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part One
- From the Welfare of the Body to the Welfare of the Soul: Medicine, Law, and Liturgy
- Chapter 1
- Critical Remarks on Medical Authorities: Maimonides' Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms
- Chapter 2
- Dissemination of Maimonides' Medical Writings in the Middle Ages
- Chapter 3
- Maimonides' Contribution to Women's Healthcare and His Influence on the Hebrew Gynaecological Corpus
- Chapter 4
- The Structure of Mishneh Torah
- Chapter 5
- Maimonides on the Prayers
- Part Two
- From Cairo to Crown Heights: Interpreting Maimonides in the East and in the West
- Chapter 6
- Maimonides8212;Father and Son: Continuity and Change
- Chapter 7
- Abraham Maimuni's Prayer Reforms: Continuation or Revision of His Father's Teachings?
- Chapter 8
- Sharh13; al-Dalala: A Commentary to Maimonides' Guide from Fourteenth-Century Yemen
- Chapter 9
- From Maimonides to Samuel ibn Tibbon: Interpreting Judaism as a Philosophical Religion
- Chapter 10
- Ahabah ba-Ta'anugim: A Fourteenth-Century Maimonidean Encyclopedia
- Chapter 11
- Late Medieval Jewish Writers on Maimonides
- Chapter 12
- Maimonides' Disputed Legacy
- Chapter 13
- The Image of Maimonides in Habad Hasidism
- Chapter 14
- Anthropomorphisms in Early Rabbinic Literature: Maimonides and Modern Scholarship
- Index of Names.