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Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in The Guide of the Perplexed(SUNY series in Jewish Philosophy)

Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in The Guide of the Perplexed(SUNY series in Jewish Philosophy)


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Examines how Maimonides integrates scriptural and rabbinic literature into his magnum opus, The Guide of the Perplexed.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction The Poetry of Midrash and Heterogeneity of Scripture 1. Midrash on Midrash: Self-Reflexive Discourse in the Guide Shir Hashirim Rabbah 1.8 and the Parabolic Method Genesis Rabbah 9 and Flash Technique Genesis Rabbah 27 and Prophetic Radicalism 2. Intertextual Foils in the Guide: Jacob vs. The Married Harlot Parabolic Precision vs. Parabolic Flourish Solomon's Married Harlot as Foil to Jacob 3. "The Lord hath forsaken the earth": An Interlude on the Dilemma of Providence in Maimonides 4. Divine Immutability and Providence: Chapters I:10--15--Prelude to the Secret of Jacob's Ladder I:10 Punishment as Cipher for Pre-eternal Will I:11 The Sitting of Indifference I:12 Rising and the Role of Metatron I:13 Standing on the Mount of Olives: The Intellectualization of a Messianic Vision I:14 Adam: Situating Man in the Providential Scheme I:15 Moses: The Paragon of an Elitist Providence 5. The Seven Units of Jacob's Ladder and Their Message 1. "Ladder" 2. "Set up on earth" 3. "And the top of it reached Heaven" 4. "Angels of God" (elohim) 5-6. "Ascending and descending" 7. "And behold the Lord stood above it" The Coalescence of Three Interpretations 6. Chapter III: 24 of the Guide: "Trial"--The Bridge between Metaphysics and Law Trial Passages Omission of a Trial Passage: Bitter Waters and Perfect Law The Quarry of Efficient Causality 7. Reflections on the Ultimate Verses of the Guide Conclusion Text and Prooftext: An Abrahamic/Mosaic Joint Venture toward Enlightenment Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
James Arthur Diamond is Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo.

Review :
"Diamond's book allows us to appreciate Maimonides' exegetical genius as has not been demonstrated before." - SPECULUM "James Diamond's lucid and interesting study of The Guide of the Perplexed takes seriously Maimonides' own claim that his book was written 'to explain the meanings of certain terms occurring in the books of prophecy' and in order to explain 'very obscure parables occurring in the books of the prophets.' These fundamental aspects of the Guide have not yet been given their due in scholarly literature, and it is to Diamond's great credit that he takes Maimonides seriously on this issue, and in so penetrating a manner. All students of Maimonides are in his debt." - Menachem Kellner, author of Maimonides on the Decline of the Generations and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority "After taking the methodological lesson of Diamond's book to heart, conscientious readers won't be able to read the Guide in quite the same way as they did before-without following the trails of the prooftexts more consistently and thoroughly all the way to their destinations." - Josef Stern, author of Problems and Parables of Law: Maimonides and Nahmanides on Reasons for the Commandments (Ta'amei Ha-Mitzvot) "There are many books about what Maimonides said, but far fewer books about how he said it. James A. Diamond's important new book brings the method of Maimonides as a philosophical exegete of Scripture to contemporary discussions of hermeneutics. Diamond's achievement is to make Maimonides a renewed participant in the type of discussion where philosophy is always the explication of an older text. Diamond shows very well how Maimonides is just too important to be left to antiquarian interest alone." - David Novak, University of Toronto


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791452479
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 245
  • Series Title: SUNY series in Jewish Philosophy
  • Sub Title: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in The Guide of the Perplexed
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0791452476
  • Publisher Date: 04 Apr 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 445 gr


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