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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466398303321

Autore

Davidson Herbert A (Herbert Alan), <1932-2021>

Titolo

Maimonides the rationalist / / Herbert A. Davidson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, , 2020

ISBN

1-80034-007-9

1-909821-03-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 pages)

Collana

Liverpool scholarship online

Disciplina

296.181

Soggetti

Jewish philosophy

Philosophy, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2011.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In his own estimation, Maimonides was neither exclusively a dedicated philosopher nor exclusively a devoted rabbinist: he saw philosophy and the Written and Oral Torahs as a single, harmonious domain, and he believed that this view was similarly fundamental to the lives of the prophets and rabbis of old. In this text, Herbert Davidson examines Maimonides' efforts to reconstitute this all-embracing, rationalist worldview that he felt had been lost during the millennium-long exile.