Maimonides and the shaping of the Jewish Canon /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Diamond, James Arthur
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Maimonides, Moses, > 1135-1204 > Philosophy. Maimonides, Moses, > 1135-1204 > Influence. Jewish philosophy. Philosophy, Medieval. Jewish philosophers.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Moses Maimonides: anchoring Jewish intellectual history
Setting the stage for the future of Jewish thought
Maimonides on Maimonides: loving God rabbinically and philosophically
Nahmanides on Jewish identity (13th century): launching the Kabbalistic assault
R. Yom Tov ben Abraham Ishbili (13th-14th century): pushing back the assault
Isaac Abarbanel (15th century): the Akedah of faith vs. the Akedah of reason
Meir ibn Gabbai (16th century): the aimlessness of philosophy
Spinoza (17th century) and a Buberian afterword (20th century): reorienting Maimonides' scriptural hermeneutic
Hermann Cohen (19th century): a new religion of reason out of the sources of Maimonides
R. Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (19th century): loving God strictly rabbinically
R. Abraham Isaac Kook (20th century): a Kabbalistic reinvention of Maimonides' legal code
Conclusion: the Maimonidean filigree of Jewish thought: Kafka, Scholem, and beyond.