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Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in the Guide of the Perplexed

By James Arthur Diamond

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780791489239, 9780791452479
LCC
BM545.D35 -- D53 2002eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19427766 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Jewish Philosophy Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
249\249
Time added
2023-08-31 16:14:28
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Description

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.

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