Maimonides on the decline of the Generations and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority
Moses Maimonides, medieval Judaism's leading legist and philosopher, and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish self-understanding, held a view of Judaism which maintained the authority of the Talmudic rabbis in matters of Jewish law while allowing for free and open inquiry in matters of science and philosophy. Maimonides affirmed, not the superiority of the moderns (the scholars of his and subsequent generations) over the ancients (the Tannaim and Amoraim, the Rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud) but the inherent equality of the two. The equality presented here is not equality of halakhic authority, but equality of ability, of e…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7914-2922-8
- EAN: 9780791429228
- Produktnummer: 1402507
- Verlag: St Univ Of New York Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 137 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D0.9 cm 245 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 245
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