| Description |
1 online resource (x, 235 pages) |
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SUNY series in Jewish philosophy |
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SUNY series in Jewish philosophy.
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| Contents |
Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Poetry of Midrash and Heterogeneity of Scripture -- Midrash on Midrash -- Shir Hashirim Rabbah 1:8 and the Parabolic Method -- Genesis Rabbah 9 and Flash Technique -- Genesis Rabbah 27 and Prophetic Radicalism -- Intertextual Foils in the Guide -- Parabolic Precision vs. Parabolic Flourish -- Solomon s ""Married Harlot"" as Foil to Jacob -- ""The Lord hath forsaken the earth"" -- Divine Immutability and Providence |
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I: 11 The ""Sitting"" of Indifference -- I: 12 ""Rising"" and the Role of Metatron -- 1: 13 ""Standing on the Mount of Olives "": The Intellectualization of a Messianic Vision -- I: 14 ""Adam ""-Situating Man in the Providential Scheme -- I: 15 Moses-The Paragon of an Elitist Providence -- The Seven Units of Jacob's Ladder and Their Message -- I. ""Ladder"" -- 2. ""Set up on earth"" -- 3. ""And the top of it reached heaven"" -- 4. ""Angels of God"" (elohim) -- 5-6. ""Ascending and descending"" -- 7. ""And behold the Lord (YHVH) stood above it"" -- The Coalescence of Three Interpretations |
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Chapter 111:24 of the Guide -- Trial Passages -- Omission of a Trial Passage: Bitter Waters and the Perfect Law -- The Quarry of Efficient Causality -- Reflections on the Ultimate Verses of the Guide -- Text and Prooftext -- Back Matter -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
Annotation 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-222) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86031910
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Bible. Old Testament -- Hermeneutics
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Midrash -- History and criticism
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn (Maimonides, Moses) fast |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
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Hermeneutics
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Midrash
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780791489239 |
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079148923X |
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9780791452486 |
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0791452484 |
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