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Author Cohen, Mordechai Z

Title Opening the gates of interpretation : Maimonides' biblical hermeneutics in light of his Geonic-Andalusian heritage and Muslim milieu / by Mordechai Z. Cohen
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 566 pages)
Series Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval ; t. 48
Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 48
Contents Preface; Note on Translations, Transliterations and Citations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One Z??ahir al-Nas?s?; Part Two Peshuto Shel Miqra; Part Three Comprehensive Overview; Conclusion Maimonides in the Exegetical Constellation; Appendix A Meaning and Translation of the Peshat Principle; Appendix B The Term Peshat in Maimonides' Other Writings; Appendix C Ibn Ezra's List of Examples in Yesod Mora; Bibliography; Subject Index; Index of Authors; Index of Biblical and Rabbinic Sources; Index of Maimonidean Citations
Summary This study highlights the contributions of the great philosopher-talmudist Moses Maimonides to the rationalist, "plain sense" (peshat) tradition of Jewish Bible exegesis, assessing his place in the Geonic-Andalusian school and showing how he harnessed Greco-Arabic learning to open new hermeneutical possibilities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.
Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942.
SUBJECT Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 fast
Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942 fast
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013771
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Spain -- Andalusia
Bible. Old Testament -- Hermeneutics
Bible. Old Testament -- Islamic interpretations
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Commandments (Judaism)
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
Commandments (Judaism)
Hermeneutics
Islamic interpretations of sacred works
Spain -- Andalusia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004210066
9004210067
128327065X
9781283270656