Publication

2002-04-01 - State University of New York Press

Language

English

Word Count

58,750 words, Guess

Page Count

235 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100791452484
  • ISBN-139780791452486
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001042638
  • OCLC Control Number47168767
  • Better World Books9780791452486
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCBM545.D35 D53 2002
  • LCCBM545.D35D53 2002

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."--BOOK JACKET.

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