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Maimonides the universalist

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Maimonides' Mishneh torah presents not only a system of Jewish law, but also a system of values. This study focuses on the moral and philosophical meditations that close each volume of his code. The authors analyse these concluding passages to uncover the universalist outlook underlying Maimonides' halakhic thought.

Title Maimonides the universalist : the ethical horizons of the Mishneh Torah / Menachem Kellner and David Gillis.
Publisher London : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization : Liverpool University Press
Creation Date [2020]
Notes Published in association with Liverpool University Press.
Previously issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Knowledge: to know is to love -- Love: Abraham, Moses, and the meaning of circumcision -- Seasons: Hanukah and Purim reconfigured -- Women: marital and universal peace -- Holiness: commandments as intruments -- Asseverations: socila responsibility and sanctifying God's name -- Agriculture: sanctifying all human beings -- Temple service: the divinity of the comandments -- Offerings: the morality of the commandments -- Reitual purity: intellectual and moral purity -- Damages: who is a Jew? -- Acquision: slavery versus universal humkanity -- Civil laws: God of Aristotle in the God of Abraham -- Judges: Messianic universalism -- Appendix: Maimonides' cosmic paradigm.
Series Liverpool scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource (368 pages).
Language English
Copyright Date ©2020
National Library system number 997012689715305171
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