Details

Subject(s)

• Commandments, Six hundred and thirteen—History of doctrines [Browse]

Editor

• Brown, Jeremy P. (Jeremy Phillip) [Browse]
• Herman, Marc, 1983- [Browse]

Series

• Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; . 86. [More in this series]
• Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval, 0169-815X ; tome LXXXVI

Summary note

"Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism explores the discursive formation of the commandments as a generative matrix of Jewish thought and life in the posttalmudic period. Each study sheds light on how medieval Jews crafted the commandments out of theretofore underdetermined material. By systematizing, representing, or interrogating the amorphous category of commandment, medieval Jewish authors across both the Islamic and Christian spheres of influence sought to explain, justify, and characterize Israel's legal system, divine revelation, the cosmos, and even the divine order. This volume correlates bodies of knowledge-such as jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah-that are normally treated in isolation into a single conversation about a shared constitutional concern"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-299) and index.

ISBN

• 9789004460935 ((hardcover))
• 9004460934 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2021019014

OCLC

1248600807

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